Record of a Drunk | Takeo Iwata | Saury is Bitter and Salty | pg.3 clearance published between 1967 and 1968

published between 1967 and 1968 by Hiroshi Kaizuka

Ota won the 5th Shogakukan Manga Award in 1960

Kaoru Akiyoshi (秋好馨

8 x 19 cm (x4)

ink & blue watercolor on paper

Record of a Drunk | Takeo Iwata | Saury is Bitter and Salty | pg.3 clearance published between 1967 and 1968Saury is bitter and salty [Record of a Drunk #22) Size : 27. 5 x 39 cm pencil & ink on paper Very good condition Published in Manga Heaven (1972?) Takeo Iwata (1924 1986) yet another mangaka that died young ! He was a banker (yet another banker) at the Bank of Japan before switching to manga and started working for the Osaka Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper. In 1959 he moved to Tokyo, where he specialized in social manga illustrating the struggle of life,