Sunao Hari, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Sunao Hari

Japanese manga artist

Date of Birth: 15-Mar-1933

Place of Birth: Saga, Japan

Profession: mangaka, illustrator, aikidoka

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Sunao Hari

  • Sunao Hari (? ???, Hari Sunao), real name Sunao Takagawa (??? ?, Takagawa Sunao), is a Japanese manga artist and illustrator, martial artist born 15 March 1933 in Saga, Saga Prefecture, Japan.
  • He graduated from Saga Prefectural Saga High School (now Saga Prefectural Saga West High School). Hari is the fifth son of the chief priest at Kodenji, a family temple in the former Saga Domain.
  • He worked at a cotton spinning company and as a bank employee before moving to Tokyo in 1953 to work as a writer for a financial journal.
  • Hari made his professional manga debut in 1956. He holds a level of 8th dan in aikido, and he studied an offshoot of Shinto Muso-ryu staff fighting called "Tai no Jo" (???).
  • He currently operates in Saga City a dojo devoted to the study of aikido and jojutsu (staff fighting). Hari creates the politician caricatures for the Sankei Shimbun, as well as a weekly one panel manga for the Weekly Manga Times.
  • He won the 1973 Japan Cartoonists Association Award for Excellence for his work Hari Sunao Nigaoe Mangashu: Sokkuri (??????????ยท????).
  • He also won the Bungeishunju Manga Award in 1998 for his political caricatures.

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