Hasegawa Machiko

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Hasegawa Machiko 1950

Hasegawa Machiko ( Japanese 長谷川 町 子 ; born January 30, 1920 in Taku , Saga Prefecture , Japan ; † May 27, 1992 ) was a Japanese manga artist . With Sazae-san , she created one of the most famous comic strips in Japan. She was the first woman in Japan to have success drawing comics.

In 1934 she became a student of the Yonkoma manga artist Tagawa Suihō . In the following time she published the first comic strips for children - including from 1937 Nakayoshi Techō ( 仲 よ し 手 帖 ) for the girls' magazine Shōjo Club .

Hasegawa started Sazae-san ( サ ザ エ さ ん ) in April 1946 for the regional newspaper Fukunichi Shimbun . In 1949, the series switched to the much larger-circulation, nationally distributed Asahi Shimbun . Because of this change, the illustrator moved to Tokyo , where she worked from then on. The very popular Yonkoma manga about the everyday life of a Japanese housewife and her family ended in February 1974 after about 10,000 comic strips because Hasegawa retired. An anime television series based on the comic was launched as early as 1969 and has since run as one of the most successful animated series on Japanese television with a market share of up to 39.4 percent and comprises over 1800 episodes (each lasting around 25 minutes). The 68 books in which the strips were collectively published sold over twenty million copies in Japan.

The other works of the draftsman could not build on the success of Sazae-san . For Sunday Mainichi she created the comic strip series Epron Obasan ( エ プ ロ ン お ば さ ん , from 1957) and Ijiwaru Bāsan ( い じ わ る ば あ さ ん , from 1966).

For Sazae-san she was awarded the Bungei Shunjū Manga Prize in 1962 and the Prize of the Association of Japanese Cartoonists in 1991 . In 1985 a museum was built in Tokyo in her honor. After Hasegawa died in 1992 at the age of 72, she was honored as the first and so far only female comic artist with the National Honorary Award ( 国民 栄 誉 賞 , kokumin eiyo shō ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jaqueline Berndt : Manga phenomenon . edition q, Berlin 1995. p. 183. ISBN 3-86124-289-3 .
  2. ↑ http://www.fujitv.co.jp/b_hp/sazaesan/index.html
  3. ↑ Frederik L. Schodt: Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics . P. 61.
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Hasegawa is the family name, Machiko the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Hasegawa, machiko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 長谷川 町 子 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese manga artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Taku , Saga Prefecture, Japan
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1992