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Setagaya, Tokyo is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan. It is also the name of a neighborhood and administrative district within the ward. The ward calls itself Setagaya City in English. Its official bird is the azure-winged magpie, its flower is the fringed orch ...

, Japan. From 1946 until 1974,

Machiko Hasegawa was a Japanese manga artist and one of the first female manga artists. She started her own comic strip, ''Sazae-san'', in 1946. It reached national circulation via the ''Asahi Shimbun'' in 1949, and ran daily until Hasegawa decided to retire in ...

drew the comic strip ''

Sazae-san 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 thei ...

'' about an ordinary Japanese family led by a good-natured mother and wife, Sazae. The strip was a huge success and for most of its run appeared daily in the ''

Asahi Shimbun is one of the four largest newspapers in Japan. Founded in 1879, it is also one of the oldest newspapers in Japan and Asia, and is considered a newspaper of record for Japan. Its circulation, which was 4.57 million for its morning edition and ...

''. While entirely original and thoroughly Japanese, ''Sazae-san'' popularity in Japan is comparable to the American strip ''

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''. Hasegawa was also an art collector, and her collection along with additions by her sister Mariko is housed in the museum. The museum showcases original drawings, clay dolls, and paintings, as well as works by Western and Japanese artists.

Access

*Walk for about 7 minutes from Sakura-shimmachi Station in

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via Sazae-san Street. *Located in 1-30-6 Sakurashimmachi, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo.

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* Art museums and galleries in Tokyo Biographical museums in Japan Anime and manga museums in Japan {{Japan-art-display-stub