Jun'ichi Nakahara (1913-1983):
Jun'ichi started out as a dress designer and fashion illustrator. He was attracted to illustrating for shojo magazines in the 1920's, and he produced the cover art for quite a few issues of Shojo no Tomo up into the '30s. He doesn't seem to have gotten into panel manga, though. In 1946, he started up his own girl's magazine, Soleil, which ran until 1960, and then Himawari (Sunflower), which ran from '47 to '52. The Soleil shop, between Shibuya and Roppongi in Tokyo, continues to sell his prints, and displays some of his dress patterns