Machiko Hasegawa





Machiko Hasegawa

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born
January 30, 1920 in Taku (Saga Prefecture), Japan

died
May 27, 1992

gender
female

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長谷川 町子 in Japanese

She started her own comic strip, Sazae-san, in 1946. It reached national circulation via the Asahi Shimbun in 1949,and ran daily until Hasegawa decided to retire in February 1974. All of her comics were printed in Japan in digests of comic book form; by the mid-1990s, Hasegawa's estate had sold over 60 million copies in Japan alone.

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 2010.

Selected comics were translated into English, under the title The Wonderful World of Sazae-san.

Hasegawa Machiko remained single all her life. All her comic books were published by Shimai-sha which her sister ran. In 1985, Machiko opened her own art gallery and e...more


Average rating: 4.56 · 9 ratings · -1 reviews · 157 distinct works
The Wonderful World of Saza...
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions
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対訳 サザエさん〈2〉【講談社英語文庫】 The Wo...
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The Wonderful World of Saza...
4.6 of 5 stars 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1998
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Clover (Carr Family, #4)
3.51 of 5 stars 3.51 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 1888 — 26 editions
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The Wonderful World of Saza...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1999
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The Wonderful World of Saza...
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対訳サザエさん (12) (Bilingual Com...
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The Wonderful World of Saza...
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The Wonderful World of Sazae-san (12 books)
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