Machiko Hasegawa
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Hasegawa in August 1950
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| Born | January 30, 1920 |
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| Cause of death | Heart failure |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Occupation | Manga artist |
| Known for | Sazae-san |
Machiko Hasegawa (長谷川町子 Hasegawa Machiko?), January 30, 1920 – May 27, 1992, in Taku, Saga Prefecture) was one of the first female manga artists.[1]
She started her own comic strip, Sazae-san, in 1946. It reached national circulation via the Asahi Shimbun in 1949,[2] and ran daily until Hasegawa decided to retire in February 1974. She also created the comic strip Granny Mischief. All of her comics were printed in Japan in digest comics; by the mid-1990s, Hasegawa's estate had sold over 60 million copies in Japan alone.
Sazae-san
Sazae-san was a popular postwar comic strip depicting the life of Sazae-san, a fictional Japanese housewife.[3]
Her comic strip was turned into a dramatic radio series in 1955 and a weekly animated series in 1969, which is still running as of 2015.
Selected comics were translated into English, under the title The Wonderful World of Sazae-san.
She received the People's Honor Award in 1992.[4]
Hasegawa died of heart failure on May 27, 1992, at the age of 72.
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