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Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
About Suihō Tagawa
- Chutaro Takamizawa (??? ???, Takamizawa Chutaro, February 10, 1899 – December 12, 1989), better known by the pen name Suiho Tagawa (?? ??, Tagawa Suiho), was a Japanese manga artist. Born in Sumida, Tokyo, Chutaro Takamizawa grew up an orphan: his mother died upon his birth, his father and his uncle (who served as one of his stepparents) both died several years afterwards.
- He graduated from Fukagawa's municipal Rinkai Jinjo elementary school in 1911.
- In 1919, he was conscripted into the Imperial Japanese Army, and left in 1922.
- In 1925, he graduated from Nihon Bijutsu Gakko ("Japan School of Art").
- In 1926, he became a rakugo author.
- He began producing manga in 1927.
- He gained a regular assignment selling manga stories and adopted the pen name Awa Takamizu, which was later corrupted into Suiho Tagawa: Suiho literally means "water bubble".
- In 1928 he married Junko (younger sister of Hideo Kobayashi) in a church ceremony. In 1931, he began the long-running series Norakuro in Kodansha's anthology magazine Shonen Kurabu, about an anthropomorphic black and white dog in an army of dogs.
- Although at first intended to have only a brief lifespan, its immense popularity urged Tagawa to continue producing the strip.
- He has won numerous awards and is recognized as one of the pioneers of the Japanese manga industry. After World War II he became a bona fide Christian; he credited the faith in helping him overcome alcoholism after several failed attempts.
- In 1988, he produced the autobiographical Watashi no Rirekisho ("My Résumé") for the Japanese Sankei Shimbun newspaper.
- He died in 1989 at the age of 90.
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