Shiro Saegusa
Shirō Saegusa is one of the pen names of Gyū Jirō, a manga writer, novelist and Buddhist priest born on May 19, 1940, in Asakusa, Tokyo. After writing pachinko columns for the newspaper Yūkan Fuji, he debuted as a manga writer with Kugishi Sabu-yan, drawn by Big Jō, and the pair went on to create hits such as Hōchōnin Ajihei; in the 1980s he also wrote Plawres Sanshirō. Hono no Kyojin, drawn by Ryōji Ryūzaki, was published under the Saegusa name.