Hekoten Shimokawa

下川凹天

Shimokawa Hekoten is considered to be one of the founding artists and pioneers of anime. He was a political caricaturist and cartoonist, who worked for the magazine Tokyo Puck. He was hired by Tenkatsu to do an animation for them. The result was [Imokawa Mukuzo, Genkanban no Maki](https://anilist.co/anime/17387) - considered as the very first "true" animation film. Being a first generation animator, he only managed to do five movies after withdrawing due to medical reasons.

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