Sanpei Shirato

Sanpei Shirato
白土 三平
Born
Noboru Okamoto

(1932-02-15)February 15, 1932
Tokyo, Japan
DiedOctober 8, 2021(2021-10-08) (aged 89)
Tokyo, Japan
Occupation(s)Manga artist, essayist
Years active1957–1987
Notable work
Awards4th Kodansha Children's Manga Award

Noboru Okamoto (Japanese: 岡本 登, Hepburn: Okamoto Noboru, February 15, 1932 – October 8, 2021), known by the pen name Sanpei Shirato (白土 三平, Shirato Sanpei), was a Japanese manga artist and essayist known for his social criticism as well as the realism of his drawing style and the characters in his scenarios. He is considered a pioneer of the controversial gekiga genre of adult-oriented manga.[1]

The son of the Japanese proletarian painter Toki Okamoto, his dream to become an artist equal with his father started when he became a kamishibai artist. He is also known for his work published in the early issues of the manga anthology magazine Garo in 1964, which he began publishing so as to serialize his comic Kamui.

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