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Left: Late Meiji-Period girls' magazines. Center: The November 1910 issue of Shôjo. Right: A rare comic strip found in that issue.
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The July 1917 issue of Shin shôjo ("New Girl")
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The January 1917 issue of Shôjo no tomo ("Girls' Friend") and a comic strip from that issue.
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A 1931 comic strip by the great MATSUMOTO Katsuji titled "Poku-chan to ekaki no shenshe" ("Little Poku and the Artist"), from the pages of Shôjo no tomo.
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Matsumoto Katsuji's best-known character, Kurumi-chan, in a somewhat realistic illustration, and in her popular comic strip. (Circa 1940)
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Two works by the legendary NAKAHARA Jun'ichi from the mid-1930s. Nakahara was banned during the last years of the war, because his sultry illustrations were considered by government censors to be "unhealthy." He came back with a vengeance, though, after the war, founding his own wildly popular girls' and women's fashion magazines, and developing a dinstictive style of drawing faces that had an enormous influence on later shôjo manga.