Tomoe Iwaoka

Her father was a prominent lawyer named Iyoji Iwaoka. In 1912 when Tomoe was 16, her father was elected to the 11th House of Representatives in Japan. Iwaoka died on November 7, 1933, in Tokyo at the age of 37.

• Name — Tomoe Iwaoka • Born — 15 June 1896 • Birthplace — Tokyo, Japan • Died — 7 November 1933 • Place of death — Saiseikai Central Hospital, Tokyo, Japan • Style — Nihonga

• Illustration — Postcards illustrated by Tomoe to promote an art exhibition, c. 1920s.

Tomoe regularly contributed to the popular children's magazine Kodomo no Kuni (children's magazine) that was published monthly in Japan from 1922 to 1944. The magazine was the first in Japan to hire multiple, rotating illustrators rather than hiring a select number of in-house artists. Other employees of the publication included Kiichi Okamoto, Shinpei Nakayama, Hakushu Kitahara, and Yumeji Takehisa. By 1932, the magazine had published the contributions of more than one hundred artists, approximately twenty-five of whom were women. The following is a small selection of Kodomo no Kuni issues known to feature illustrations by Tomoe Iwaoka: • March 1925, v. 4, #4. • September 1926, v. 5, #9. • December 1929, v. 8, #15. • March 1931, v. 10, #3. • March 1932, v. 11, #3.

The following is established of the heading itself.

The following is established of origins and background. Born in 1896 at Nihonbashi-ku. It is also recorded that tomoe Iwaoka died in 1933 at Saiseikai Central Hospital.