Yasuo Segawa (瀬川 康男, Segawa Yasuo; 5 April 1932 – 18 February 2010) was a Japanese illustrator for children's books, born in Okazaki, Aichi. He won the first grand prize in Biennial of Illustration Bratislava in 1967 for Taro and the Bamboo Shoot (ふしぎな たけのこ, Fushigina Takenoko) written by Masako Matsuno. Segawa died on 18 October 2010 of rectal cancer at a hospital in Obuse, Nagano.
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