Yasuo Segawa


Yasuo Segawa 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 Taro and the Bamboo Shoot written by Masako Matsuno.
Segawa died on 18 October 2010 of rectal cancer at a hospital in Obuse, Nagano.

Works

One of his books for babies is Peek-a-Boo, published in 1967, which became a long seller in Japan, with more than 4,500,000 copies sold.