Takao Yaguchi (Yaguchi Takao, real name Takahashi Takao = Takahashi Takao), a cartoonist who drew the relationship between nature and people, as the blockbuster “Fishing Kichi Sanpei” said at 5:46 pm on the 20th, the pancreas. ) He died of cancer in a Tokyo hospital. 81 years. Born in Akita Prefecture. The funeral was conducted by close relatives. The mourner is Katsumi’s wife.

After graduating from high school in Akita prefecture and working as a bank clerk, he became a cartoonist and began publishing “Fishing Kichi Sanpei” in “Weekly Shonen Magazine” in 1973. The story of Mihira Sanpei, a boy who lives in the desert, playing an active role as a fishing master, became popular during the fishing boom. It was serialized for 10 years and was made into a television animation and live action movie.

Other works based on nature and the Tohoku people became popular one after another, and the “bee snake ghost snake” featuring the legend of the ghost snake caused a boom in Tsuchinoko. “Matagi”, whose main character are people who pretend to hunt bears, won the Grand Prize of the Japan Cartoonists Association.

He also worked on an essay, and the passage “My school is mountains and rivers” was published in the school textbook. He was an honorary director of the Masuda Manga Museum in Yokote City, which opened in 1995 in his hometown of Akita Prefecture. (Joint)