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326: 342: 42: 117: 243:, in which he illustrated mostly scenes of everyday Japanese life, but also ridiculed Japanese politicians and what he felt to be excesses of in the Westernization of Japan. The newspaper had to be published in Yokohama for fear of 407: 131:(7 April 1860 – 10 October 1927) was a French cartoonist, illustrator and artist. Although almost unknown in his native country, Bigot is famous in Japan for his 387: 382: 266:
in Japan in 1899, Bigot decided to return to France. He divorced his wife, but kept custody of their son. After his return to France, he worked for
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In 1895, Bigot married Masu Sano and fathered a son named Maurice. However, with the revision of the
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and other French magazines and newspapers. He also provided cartoons depicting the
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teacher at a school run by the writer and liberal political philosopher
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On the expiry of his government teaching job, he found employment as a
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Foreign advisors to the government in Meiji-period Japan
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Georges Bigot

Paris
France
Bièvres, Essonne
France

satirical
cartoons
Meiji period
5th arrondissement of Paris
École des Beaux-Arts
Jean-Léon Gérôme
Carolus-Duran
Japonism
Japanese art
Exposition Universelle (1878)
Émile Zola
Nana
Yokohama
Japanese language
Japanese painting
watercolor painting
Imperial Japanese Army Academy
oyatoi gaikokujin
French language
Nakae Chōmin
Tōbaé
Japanese censors
First Sino-Japanese War

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