Yasuo Segawa | |
Native Name: | 瀬川康男 |
Native Name Lang: | Japanese |
Birth Name: | Segawa Yasuo |
Birth Date: | 5 April 1932 |
Birth Place: | Okazaki, Aichi, Japan |
Death Place: | Obuse, Nagano, Japan |
Nationality: | Japanese |
Education: | Aichi Prefectural Okazaki North High School |
Known For: | Illustration, printmaking, picturebook author, |
Awards: | Biennial of Illustration Bratislava (1967 inaugural recipient) |
was a Japanese illustrator for children's books, born in Okazaki, Aichi.
He won the first grand prize in Biennial of Illustration Bratislava in 1967 for written by Masako Matsuno.
Segawa died on 18 October 2010 of rectal cancer at a hospital in Obuse, Nagano.[1]
One of his books for babies is, published in 1967, which became a long seller in Japan, with more than 4,500,000 copies sold.[1]