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Ōten Shimokawa (or Hekoten Shimokawa) (下川凹天, Shimokawa Ōten; May 2, 1892, May 26, 1973) was a Japanese artist, considered to be one of the founding artists and pioneers of anime. Little is known of his early personal life, other than that his family moved to the Tokyo area when he was nine years old. Here he began working for Tokyo Puck magazine as a political cartoonist and manga series artist.