Shinta Cho
Shinta Chō was a Japanese children's author and illustrator. He won the Japan Picture Book Awards Grand Prize for Kyabetsu-kun (Cabbage Boy) in 1981.
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Shinta Cho
- Died
- 2005
- Nationality
- Japan · Empire of Japan
- Occupation
- mangaka · illustrator · cartoonist · artist
- Honours
- Iwaya Sazanami Award
- Languages
- Japanese
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Shinta Chō was a Japanese children's author and illustrator. He won the Japan Picture Book Awards Grand Prize for Kyabetsu-kun (Cabbage Boy) in 1981.
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Shinta Cho (1927–2005) was a Japanese and Japanese artist, cartoonist and illustrator, among other activities. The artist was born in Tokyo.
Languages used include Japanese. Shinta Cho received Iwaya Sazanami Award.
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Life
Chō was born Shuji Suzuki in Tokyo in 1928. He began illustrating cartoon strips in the late 1940s. He created the Talkative Fried Egg cartoon for a cartoon monthly in 1959. He also wrote children's books, including The Gas We Pass: The Story of Farts (Japan 1978, USA 1994).
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Shinta Cho is recorded with the occupation illustrator. Recorded with the occupation cartoonist. Recorded with the occupation mangaka. Recorded with the occupation artist. Recorded as mangaka, illustrator, cartoonist and artist.
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Life and career
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1927
Shinta Cho was born on 24 September 1927.
2005
Shinta Cho died on 25 June 2005.
Children's books
• The Gas We Pass: The Story of Farts (Onara / おなら) • Umph-a-Lumph, Meow (Tsumi-tsumi nya / つみつみニャー) • Chorus of Winter Buds (Fuyume gasshodan / ふゆめがっしょうだん) • The Easygoing Aquarium (Nonbiri suizokukan / ノンビリすいぞくかん) • The Cats and Their Flying Machine (Gorogoro nyan / ごろごろ にゃーん) • Up! Up! (Dakko, dakko, née dakko / だっこだっこねえだっこ) • Rolling Kittens (Korokoro nyan / ころころにゃーん) • A Worm Named Buddy (Mimizu no ossan / みみずのオッサン) • Chomp! (Pakkun pakkun / ぱっくんぱっくん) • Dakuchiru, Dakuchiru • My Beach (Watashi no Umibe) • The Talkative Omelet (Oshaberi na tamagoyaki) • Spring is Here, Auntie Owl (Fukurō Obasan) • Cabbage Boy (Kyabetsu-kun) • Upside-Down Lion (Sakasama raion) • Rubber-Headed Pontarō (Gomu-atama Pontarō)
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- “Shinta Chō”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Awards
• 1959 - he won the Bungei Shunju Manga Award for Oshaberi na tamagoyaki (The Talkative Omelet) • 1974 - he won an honourable mention in the Hans Christian Andersen Awards for Oshaberi na tamagoyaki (The Talkative Omelet) • 1977 - he won the Kodansha Publication Culture Award for Children's Picture Books for Haru desu yo, Fukurō Obasan (Spring Is Here, Auntie Owl). • 1981 - he won the Japan Picture Book Awards Grand Prize for Kyabetsu-kun (Cabbage Boy) • 1986 - he won an award for Sakasama raion (Upside-Down Lion) • 1994 - he received Japan's Medal with Purple Ribbon in recognition of his work as an artist and illustrator • 1999 - he won a Japanese Picture Book Award for Gomu-atama Pontarō (Rubber-Headed Pontarō) • 2002 - he won the ExxonMobil Children's Culture Award
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- 1.Shinta Chō. Books from Japan.
- 2.kotobank. 長新太(ちょうしんた)とは - コトバンク.
- 3.Obituaries in the Performing Arts 2005: Film, Television, Radio Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture, by Harris M. Lentz III (McFarland, 2006), p. 67.
- 4.Kodansha. 絵本賞 ： 講談社.
- 5.Shinta Cho wins award. The Japan Times. 15 November 2002.
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