Machiko Hasegawa

Machiko Hasegawa (長谷川町子, Hasegawa Machiko (Saga, January 30th 1920 - May 27th 1992) is a Mangaka Japan ease. It began its series Sazae-san in 1946. Published daily by the Asahi Shimbun between 1949 and 1974, this series in the form of Strip S of four boxes ( Yonkoma ) acquired a national diffusion. Sazae-san tells the life of an housewife and her family, and shows the evolution of the Japanese company after the war, between traditions and influence of the occident. The series was adapted in the form of radiophonic parts in 1955 then in weekly series of animation in 1969, always diffused in 2005. Some extracts appeared in English under the title The Wonderful World off Sazae-san , but no French translation exists yet.

Single person, Hasegawa published his albums in the publisher directed by his sister. She also carried out Eipuron Obasan and Ijiwaru Bassan (on a farceuse grandmother). She opened in 1985 a gallery with Tōkyō which exposed its drawings. After his death, the Prime Minister gave a posthumous price to him, and its gallery became a museum. Its work was and remains extremely popular in Japan. In the middle of the years 1990, the have-rights of Hasegawa had sold more than sixty million specimens, for only Japan.

Studies

Hiroko Sato, “Outline of the changes of the Japanese family at the XXe century through three mangas”, Clio n°19, 2004.

External bonds

Official site
Small + Presentation of Sazae-san
Slow fox trot Trains Literary Newspaper article of Suzanne Nielsen

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