Sasai who won Yomiuri Shimbun Prize in the poster section of the A.F.T. sponsorship international color coordinate contest in 2009.

The association of national outfitting school teacher society carrying out color official approval (A.F.T.) holds this contest every year. The contest had fashion and two branches of the poster, and 327 points of application exhibited Sasai at the poster section which there was for the first time from the inside and outside the country, and won Yomiuri Shimbun Prize which was next to a prize, Minister of Economy Trade and Industry Prize especially of the blue ribbon.

17 industrial design department first graders applied at the part of the class. The common theme of the poster section "expresses the laughter with a color". He imaged a rainbow, and described a colorful design in the groundwork, and drew computer graphic on the top.

Sasai says that "I drew it to want to do it without being seized with a theme". He got inspiration from the rainbow that I saw by chance, and produced a work at a stretch in the short time for about two hours.

The news of the receiving a prize was the envelope which reached the home. He said "Hum? I'm suprised !".

The commendation ceremony of the contest was performed in Tokyo / Hotel Okura Tokyo on March 12, and Sasai participates in a commendation ceremony, and be bashful when "I was glad though I was tense", and say even if a family was pleased than oneself.

Since the days of a child, he liked that he drew a picture and that he made a thing. He belonged to the fine art club at a junior high school.

It was hope to get the work that he was engaged in a design in the future, and this receiving a prize told you that "I thought that I might become advantageous for finding employment, and I was accompanied by some confidence".