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Akira Oze
is a Japanese manga artist. He made his debut in 1971 under the pen name writing shōnen manga, but he switched in the 1980s to seinen manga. He is best known for '' Natsuko's Sake'', which was adapted as a live-action television series. Oze won the 1986 Shogakukan Manga Award The is one of Japan's major manga awards, and is sponsored by Shogakukan Publishing. It has been awarded annually for serialized manga and features candidates from a number of publishers. It is the oldest manga award in Japan, being given since ... for shōnen manga for ''Hatsukoi Scandal'' and ''Tobe! Jinrui II''. Selected works * (1978, 1 volume) * (1981–1986, 18 volumes) * (1986–1987, 7 volumes) - story by Masao Yajima * (1988–1991, 12 volumes) * (1992–1994, 7 volumes) * (1994–1997, 9 volumes) * (2001–2004, 8 volumes) References External links Official Website * at The Ultimate Manga Guide Manga artists from Kyoto Prefecture 1947 births Living people People from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyoto
Kyoto (; Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. Located in the Kansai region on the island of Honshu, Kyoto forms a part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kobe. , the city had a population of 1.46 million. The city is the cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Kyoto, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 3.8 million people. Kyoto is one of the oldest municipalities in Japan, having been chosen in 794 as the new seat of Japan's imperial court by Emperor Kanmu. The original city, named Heian-kyō, was arranged in accordance with traditional Chinese feng shui following the model of the ancient Chinese capital of Chang'an/Luoyang. The emperors of Japan ruled from Kyoto in the following eleven centuries until 1869. It was the scene of several key events of the Muromachi period, Sengoku period, and the Boshin War, such as the Ōnin War, the Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
