Kosen Takahashi

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Kosen Takahashi illustration for The Twilight, 1898

From the first number of the The Twilight, text by Yone Noguchi, artwork by Kosen Takahashi, published in San Francisco May 1898. The poem is reprinted in Noguchi's The Summer Cloud (1906): THOU, UNHEARD SONGSTER Thou, unheard songster—star with the silent song through the Vast! O, despair not of to-morrow dawn!—those cold mortals forget thy divine beauty.

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Kosen Takahashi featured by napawf

National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum (NAPAWF) featured Takashashi on their Facebook feed June 19, 2019. "June is both Pride and Immigrant Heritage Month. Today we are highlighting Kosen Takahashi, a queer Issei illustrator for a Japanese newspaper in San Francisco around the turn of the 20th century."

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Kosen Takahashi illustration of women using chopsticks.

"The screens may not prevent amused rubbernecks' from witnessing the first trouble with the chop sticks."—An Impression by Kosen Takahashi. From The New York Morning Telegraph, 28 June 1903.

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Kosen Takahashi's letter with his photograph

Calisphere: Letter from Kosen Takahashi to Blanche Partington, March 29, 1899.

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Illustration by Kosen Takahashi, “Japanese Embroidery”, St. Louis Daily Globe-Democrat, Feb. 28, 1904, 10.