THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
January 17, 2021 at 18:17 JST
Empress Michiko looks at picture books created by Mitsumasa Anno, right, at Itabashi Art Museum in Tokyo in 2012. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Celebrated painter and illustrator Mitsumasa Anno, whose landscape drawings in pale watercolors and playful picture books earned him international awards and acclaim, died from cirrhosis of the liver on Dec. 24. [Read More]
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