Georges Ferdinand Bigot

Georges Ferdinand Bigot
Bigot in 1882
Born	(1860-04-07)7 April 1860 Paris, France
Died	10 October 1927(1927-10-10) (aged 67) Bièvres, Essonne, France
Nationality	French
Occupation(s)	artist, cartoonist

Georges Ferdinand Bigot (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

Biography

Bigot was born in the

On the expiry of his government teaching job, he found employment as a French language teacher at a school run by the writer and liberal political philosopher Nakae Chōmin. He also traveled extensively around Japan. In 1887, Bigot published a satirical magazine, Tōbaé, 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 Japanese censors. During the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), Bigot traveled to Korea on special assignment from the English magazine London Graphic.

In 1895, Bigot married Masu Sano and fathered a son named Maurice. However, with the revision of the

• Charles Wirgman

References

• Shimizu, Isao, ed. Bigô Sobyôshû, Iwanami Bunko. Tôkyô: Iwanami shoten, 2003.
• Shimizu, Isao, ed. Zoku Bigô Sobyôshû, Iwanami Bunko. Tôkyô: Iwanami shoten, 2001.

External links

• Works by or about Georges Ferdinand Bigot at Internet Archive
• Lambiek.net
• Media related to Georges Ferdinand Bigot at Wikimedia Commons