Editing Suihō Tagawa (section)

==Biography==
Born in [[Sumida, Tokyo]], Nakatarō Takamizawa grew up an [[orphan]]: his mother [[Maternal death|died upon his birth]], his father and his uncle (who served as one of his stepparents) both died several years afterwards. He graduated from [[Fukagawa, Tokyo|Fukagawa]]'s municipal ''Rinkai Jinjō'' elementary school in 1911. In 1919, he was conscripted into the [[Imperial Japanese Army]], serving in Korea and Manchuria, and left in 1922. In 1925, he graduated from ''Nihon Bijutsu Gakkō'' ("Japan School of Art"); during his time at the school, he participated in the radical avant-garde movement [[Mavo]], under the pen name '''Takamizawa Michinao''' {{Nihongo|2=高見沢 路直}}. <ref>{{Cite book |last=Weisenfeld |first=Gennifer |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UaUCjgaV3y4C&dq=tagawa+suiho+mavo&pg=PA366 |title=MAVO: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1905-1931 |date=2002-02-25 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-22338-7 |language=en}}</ref>

In 1926, he became a ''[[rakugo]]'' author. He began producing [[manga]] in 1927. He gained a regular assignment selling manga stories and adopted the pen name {{Nihongo|'''Takamizuawa'''|田河水泡|}}, which was later corrupted into {{Nihongo|'''Suihō Tagawa'''|田河 水泡|Tagawa Suihō}}:<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-05-25 |title=Tokyo Art Navigation |url=https://tokyoartnavi.jp/english/kaitaishinsho/index014.html |access-date=2022-12-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180525133320/https://tokyoartnavi.jp/english/kaitaishinsho/index014.html |archive-date=2018-05-25 }}</ref> {{Nihongo||[[wikt:水泡#Japanese|水泡]]|Mizuawa/Suihō}} literally means "water bubble". In 1928 he married {{Nihongo|Junko|潤子}} (younger sister of [[Hideo Kobayashi]]) in a church ceremony.

In 1931, he began the long-running series ''[[Norakuro]]'' in [[Kodansha]]'s anthology magazine ''[[Shōnen Club|Shōnen Kurabu]]'', about an [[anthropomorphism|anthropomorphic]] black and white dog in an army of dogs.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Suzuki |first1=Shige (CJ) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rBB8EAAAQBAJ&dq=tagawa+suiho+norakuro&pg=PA188 |title=Manga: A Critical Guide |last2=Stewart |first2=Ronald |date=2022-09-22 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-350-07237-4 |language=en}}</ref> Although at first intended to have only a brief lifespan, its immense popularity urged Tagawa to continue producing the strip until 1941''.'' Tagawa  has won numerous awards and is recognized as one of the pioneers of the Japanese manga industry.  He mentored [[Machiko Hasegawa]], who would become the creator of the popular comic series [[Sazae-san]], and he was an influence to [[Osamu Tezuka]], the "God of Manga".  Some other comics by Tagawa are ''Tako no Yacchan'' and ''Gasorin Oyoshi''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Exner |first=Eike |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Hw-EAAAQBAJ&dq=norakuro+sino+japanese&pg=PT177 |title=Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History |date=2021-11-12 |publisher=Rutgers University Press |isbn=978-1-9788-2723-3 |language=en}}</ref>

After [[World War II]] he became a ''bona fide'' [[Christianity in Japan|Christian]]; he credited the faith in helping him overcome [[alcoholism]] after several failed attempts. In 1988, he produced the autobiographical ''Watashi no Rirekisho'' ("My [[Résumé]]") for the Japanese ''[[Sankei Shimbun]]'' newspaper. He died in 1989 at the age of 90.