Sazae-san
Sign in to saveis a Japanese yonkoma manga series written and illustrated by Machiko Hasegawa. It was first published in Hasegawa's local paper, the , on April 22, 1946. When the Asahi Shimbun wished to have Hasegawa draw the four-panel comic for their paper, she moved to Tokyo in 1949 with the explanation that the main characters had moved from Kyūshū to Tokyo as well. The first Sazae-san strip run by the Asahi Shimbun was published on November 30, 1949. The manga dealt with everyday life and contemporary situations in Tokyo until Hasegawa retired and ended the series, with the final comic published on Febr
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It sits within the topics 1946 comics debuts, 1946 manga and 1969 anime television series debuts.
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Key facts
- Animanga/Header.name
- Sazae-san
- Animanga/Header.image
- sazaesanvolume11.jpg
- Animanga/Header.caption
- Cover of the eleventh volume of the bilingual version of the manga by Kodansha, depicting the lead character Sazae riding a horse with her little sister Wakame.
- Animanga/Header.ja_kanji
- サザエさん
- Animanga/Header.genre
- Slice of life
- Animanga/Print.type
- manga
- Animanga/Print.author
- Machiko Hasegawa
- Animanga/Print.publisher
- Asahi Shimbun
- Animanga/Print.magazine
- Fukunichi ShinbunAsahi Shimbun, etc.
- Animanga/Print.first
- April 22, 1946
- Animanga/Print.last
- February 21, 1974
- Animanga/Print.volumes
- 68 (6,477 comic strips)
- Animanga/Other.title
- Anime television series
- Animanga/Other.content
- Sazae-san (1969–present)
- Animanga/Footer.portal
- yes
- Television.image
- Sazaesan-Logo.svg
- Television.creative_director
- Kondou Kazuhide (2024–)
- Television.music
- Nobuyoshi KoshibeKunihiro Kawano
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- yonkoma
- Author
- Machiko Hasegawa
- Country of origin
- Japan
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- Commons category
- Sazae-san
- language of work or name
- Japanese
- start time
- 1946-04-22
- number of parts of this work
- 45
- title
- サザエさん
- end time
- 1974-02-21
- copyright holder
- Hasegawa Machiko Art Museum
- illustrator
- Machiko Hasegawa
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- Plot
- Characters
- Isono and Fuguta family
- Isono and Fuguta family's kin
- Isasaka family
- Other characters
- Media
- Manga
- Anime
- Live-action
- Commercials
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
is a Japanese yonkoma manga series written and illustrated by Machiko Hasegawa. It was first published in Hasegawa's local paper, the , on April 22, 1946. When the Asahi Shimbun wished to have Hasegawa draw the four-panel comic for their paper, she moved to Tokyo in 1949 with the explanation that the main characters had moved from Kyūshū to Tokyo as well. The first Sazae-san strip run by the Asahi Shimbun was published on November 30, 1949. The manga dealt with everyday life and contemporary situations in Tokyo until Hasegawa retired and ended the series, with the final comic published on February 21, 1974.
As of 1999, the manga had over 86 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time. An anime television adaptation by TCJ (later renamed Eiken) began airing in Japan in October 1969 and holds the Guinness World Record for the longest-running animated television series. It has also been adapted into a radio show, theatrical plays and songs.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sazae-san” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.