サトウサンペイさん死去、９１歳　漫画家「フジ三太郎」

　「フジ三太郎」などサラリーマンの日常を描いた４コマ作品で知られる漫画家のサトウサンペイ（本名佐藤幸一＝さとう・ゆきかず）さんが７月３１日午前１１時３０分、誤嚥（ごえん）性肺炎のため東京都内の病院で死去した。９１歳だった。名古屋市出身。葬儀は近親者で済ませた。喪主は妻みどりさん。
　１９２９年に名古屋市で生まれ、大阪市で育った。京都工業専門学校（現京都工芸繊維大）卒業後、大丸（現大丸松坂屋百貨店）に入社。宣伝部に勤め、社内報に漫画を寄稿したことなどをきっかけに、新大阪新聞の４コマ漫画「大阪の息子」で５１年デビューした。
　拠点を東京に移し、６５年４月に朝日新聞夕刊で連載を始めた「フジ三太郎」は、高度経済成長からバブル期に至る平凡なサラリーマンの日常をユーモアや風刺を交えて描き、人気を集めた。７９年に朝刊に移った後、９１年９月まで２６年半、８１６８回に及ぶ長期連載となった。（2021/08/06-10:02）

Japanese cartoonist Sanpei Sato, known for the "Fujisantaro" four-panel comic series, died of aspiration pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital last Saturday. He was 91.
   Sato, whose real name was Yukikazu Sato, was born in the central Japan city of Nagoya in 1929 and grew up in the western city of Osaka. He debuted as a cartoonist in 1951, when his "Osaka no Musuko" comic series appeared on a local newspaper in Osaka.
   He later moved to Tokyo, where he began drawing the Fujisantaro series for the evening edition of the major Japanese daily Asahi Shimbun in April 1965.
   The series depicted an ordinary corporate worker in the period of Japan's rapid economic growth after World War II and during its bubble economy era using humor and satire, earning Sato many fans.
   Fujisantaro began appearing on the newspaper's morning edition in 1979. Sato drew a total of 8,168 comic strips under the series until it ended in September 1991. Other works of Sato include Yuhi-kun and Asakaze-kun.