Yoko Sano, Yoko Sano, grew up memories

Yoko Sano, a famous Japanese picture book writer, is known for her masterpiece "The Cat That Lived 1 Million Times". Born in Beijing, China, he graduated from the Department of Design at Musashino Art University in Tokyo, Japan, and studied lithographing at the University of Art and Design in Berlin, Germany. She was married for the first time in 1962, divorced in 1980, married for the second time in 1990, and divorced in 1996.

On November 5, 2010, she died of breast cancer at a hospital in Tokyo at the age of 72.

After returning to Japan, he began to create picture books while working on design and illustration. Yoko Sano has created a large number of children's picture pants fiction works, such as "My Hat", "Gentleman's Umbrella", and "Please Wait", among which "Gentleman's Umbrella" won the Sankei Children's Culture Recommendation Award, and "My Hat" won the Kodansha Publishing Cultural Picture Book Award. "The Cat Who Lived a Million Times" is her masterpiece.

In April 2004, she was awarded the Purple Ribbon Medal for Artists by the Japanese ** for her contributions to picture books such as "The Cat Who Lived 1 Million Times" and "The Old Uncle's Umbrella". Her husband is Shuntaro Tanigawa, a famous Japanese poet and picture book writer.

The final work shows the courtyard house.

The Cat Who Lived a Million Times is Yoko Sano's masterpiece, and her other works have also featured cats as the main characters. But yesterday she said that she doesn't really like cats. "Everyone thinks of me as a cat painter, but I don't really like cats, and the reason why I draw cats is simply because I'm worried that I can't draw dogs, and cats are easier to draw.

When it comes to the inspiration for her work, she said that at the time, she was only in her 30s, and "one day suddenly a cat that had lived 1 million times appeared in my mind, and then the story was basically formed, and it can be said that the creation of this story was done in one go." Speaking of this, Yoko Sano suddenly smiled like a child: "So, I can be regarded as a genius too."

Yoko Sano said, "I wanted to create a work about the courtyard in Beijing, to express the square sky that I saw in the courtyard when I was a child, and the world I felt when I stepped out of the courtyard for the first time. This will be my last work. ”

I have met true love many times.

The Cat Who Lived a Million Times is a book about "love". A girl told Yoko Sano that her biggest feeling after watching it was that she hoped that she could find the true love of her life. Then she asked Yoko Sano:

Have you found the true love of your life? Yoko Sano said slowly, "Love is often like this.

When you meet, you think it's true love. But after three years, you suddenly realize that it is not. In this sense, I have met true love many times.

She also said that it took many years for her to realize that writing the book reflected her instinctive desire at the time.