Feng Zikai

Feng Zikai was born on 9 November 1898 at Shimenwan, in Zhejiang. A pupil of the normal school of Hangzhou from 1914, he had there as teacher of music and drawing Li Shutong, the future monk Hongyi. He spent about ten months in Japan, where he discovered the work of Takehisa Yumeji, and then called his drawings manhua, after the Japanese manga. A lay Buddhist, he painted from 1927 to 1973, according to Lambiek, a long series for the protection of living beings. Denounced in 1966 and sent to the fields, he wrote and painted in secret; he died of lung cancer in 1975.

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• Essay緣緣堂隨筆Feng Zikai · 1931not translated into EnglishLiterature