Yanase Takashi

 Yanase Takashi is known as the founder of Anpanman. However,there were careers that he played an active part as a designer,an editor,an stage artist,a composer and so on. He composed that popular song, "Tenohira wo Taiyo ni ". He did multicolor work, but when "Anpanman" became popular, he was already about fifty years old. As a cartoonist, it was a very late-blooming.
 He was married, but had no children. So, he and his wife regarded Anpanman as their child. And,he surely eats bread for breakfast because rice sits heavy on the stomach for him.
 At present, he is over ninty years old so, he thought of retirement. But, because of "The Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake", he still continues activity regularly.