Machiko Hasegawa

Machiko Hasegawa
Machiko Hasegawa
	Hasegawa in August 1950
Born	January 30, 1920
Died	May 27, 1992 (aged 72)
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation	Manga artist
Known for	Sazae-san
Awards	See below
Japanese name
Kanji	長谷川町子
Hiragana	はせがわまちこ
Romanization
Transcriptions
Romanization	Hasegawa Machiko

Machiko Hasegawa ( Japanese : 長谷川町子 , January 30, 1920 ? May 27, 1992) was a Japanese manga artist and one of the first female manga artists. ^[1]^[2]^[3] Hasegawa's most popular comic is Sazae-San . ^[2] Her comics are still very popular and well-known. ^[2] She won the People's Honor Award. ^[4] She was the first manga artist to win the People’s Honor Award. ^[4] Hasegawa also has two museums named after her. ^[4]

Sazae-san [ change | change source ]

Sazae-san was a popular postwar comic strip depicting the life of Sazae-san, a fictional Japanese housewife. ^[5]^[3] The manga was first drawn in 1946. ^[2] It also depicts women and men equally. Sazae-San became nationally popular because of the Asahi Shimbun newspaper. ^[3]^[2] Sazae-San was turned into a radio series in 1955. ^[2] It has 45 paper volumes. It was also translated into English. ^[2] It started appearing on TV in 1969. Sazae-San is still airing today.

References [ change | change source ]

↑ Schodt, Frederik L. (1985). "Reading the Comics" . The Wilson Quarterly . 9 (3): 64. JSTOR 40256891 .
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 ^2.6 "Hasegawa Machiko | Japan Module". www.japanpitt.pitt.edu . Retrieved 2021-12-20.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. "Hasegawa Machiko: 1920-1992, born: Saga City, Kyushu, Japan" . Occupied Japan 1945 - 1952: Gender, Class, Race . Retrieved 2021-12-08.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 Shinobu TakahashiYomiuri "Lets go to the museum / Museum commemorates 'Sazae-san' creator." Japan News, The Tokyo Japan 8 Sept. 2021 Retrieved: 2020- 12- 15
↑ Garon, Sheldon (2000). "Luxury is the Enemy: Mobilizing Savings and Popularizing Thrift in Wartime Japan". Journal of Japanese Studies . 26 (1): 71. doi : 10.2307/133391 . JSTOR 133391 .

Other websites [ change | change source ]

長谷川町子 - Kotobank

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[1] Schodt, Frederik L. (1985). "Reading the Comics" . The Wilson Quarterly . 9 (3): 64. JSTOR 40256891 .

[:1-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 ^2.6 "Hasegawa Machiko | Japan Module". www.japanpitt.pitt.edu . Retrieved 2021-12-20.

[:2-3] 3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. "Hasegawa Machiko: 1920-1992, born: Saga City, Kyushu, Japan" . Occupied Japan 1945 - 1952: Gender, Class, Race . Retrieved 2021-12-08.

[:0-4] 4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 Shinobu TakahashiYomiuri "Lets go to the museum / Museum commemorates 'Sazae-san' creator." Japan News, The Tokyo Japan 8 Sept. 2021 Retrieved: 2020- 12- 15

[5] Garon, Sheldon (2000). "Luxury is the Enemy: Mobilizing Savings and Popularizing Thrift in Wartime Japan". Journal of Japanese Studies . 26 (1): 71. doi : 10.2307/133391 . JSTOR 133391 .

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