Saburo Ota
Saburo Ota (太田三郎, December 24, 1884 - May 1, 1969) was a Japanese painter and commercial illustrator active in the first half of the 20th century. Ota was born in Aichi Prefecture. He studied both Western, under Kuroda Seiki (黒田清輝, 1866 - 1924), and traditional Japanese, under Terasake Hiromi (寺崎広業, 1866 - 1919), painting styles. He then traveled extensively in the 1920s, where he was influenced by the cubist and fauvist movements. He worked as an illustrator under the name Yanagi Kimishima (君島柳三)
Japan's Pre-WWII self actualization as a world power.
Round the World Competition. / 世界一週競争双六
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A scarce 1926 Japanese 'round the world' sugoroku game and pictorial map of the world by Saburo Ota (太田三郎). This map is emblematic of Japan's self-actualization as a world power in the first half of the 20th century. It also hits at the influence of Japanese manga printing on 20th-century American and European pictorial cartography. (more details)