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Japanese Women Artists
This is a list of women artists who were born in Japan or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. A *Chako Abeno, manga artist *Fuku Akino (1908–2001), painter *Akira Amano (born 1973), manga artist *Kozue Amano (born 1974), manga artist *Yasuko Aoike (born 1948), manga artist *Kotomi Aoki (born 1980), manga artist *Ume Aoki, manga artist *Chiho Aoshima (born 1974), pop artist *Hina Aoyama (born 1970), paper-cutting artist, illustrator *Kiyoko Arai, manga artist *Hiromu Arakawa (born 1973), manga artist *Sakura Asagi, illustrator, manga artist * Yū Asagiri, manga artist *George Asakura (born 1974), manga artist *Hinako Ashihara, manga artist *Izumi Aso (born 1960), manga artist B *Ippongi Bang (born 1965), multimedia and manga artist C *Toriko Chiya, manga artist *Junko Chodos (born 1939), mixed media artist, now in the United States *Nanae Chrono (born 1980), manga artist * Clamp, manga artists E *Eiki Eiki (born 1971), manga artist * Kinuko Emi (1923–2015 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans Japanese archipelago, an archipelago of List of islands of Japan, 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa Island, Okinawa. Tokyo is the Capital of Japan, nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated and Urbanization by country, urbanized. About three-fourths of Geography of Japan, the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Izumi Aso
is a Japanese manga artist known for her ''Hikari no Densetsu'' series. Biography Izumi Aso at an early age was a very active young woman who enjoyed drawing. In her late teens she decided that she was going to become a manga artist. In the early 1980s she debuted as a manga artist and writer in Margaret Magazine (with "NY de dokkiri!"), this would become the magazine/publishing house that would go on to edit and publish her other works of manga series in the future. As a manga artist, Aso focused on the style of drawing that gives the impression that the drawn figures are going to pop out of the pages. This style would later become useful in her later manga works that would focus on sports such as baseball, skating, among other sports. Aso would later on after her debut as an artist detache her interest for the depiction of the body in motion and would search for a more emotional expression in her later works of as a manga artist. She was able to achieve this with her later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiro Fujiwara
is a Japanese manga artist. The manga artist was once active under her previous pen name, at the end of the 1990s, but has abandoned the name after she won the Best Rookie award in the LMS for ''Kaeri Michi, Yuki no Netsu''. Her first series, was serialized in Hakusensha's monthly '' shōjo'' manga magazine, ''LaLa''. This series is licensed for North America, and an anime adaptation was broadcast during Spring 2010. About Personal Hiro Fujiwara was born on December 23, 1981 in Hyōgo Prefecture. She also has two older brothers and two cats, but is currently living alone. She said that one of her older brothers was an otaku and anonymously posted the story of his younger sister, Hiro, on the web radio of her work '' Kaichō wa Maid-sama!'' in connection with its story of the Younger Sister Day. She normally speaks standard Japanese but when she relaxes or let her guard down, she will speak in a Kansai accent in which she can hardly have control of. She also states that curr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cocoa Fujiwara
was a Japanese manga artist and illustrator from Fukuoka Prefecture. Her debut was with a work called ''Calling'', which she made when she was only fifteen. She chose not to go to high school so that she could draw manga. Fujiwara was a fan of RPGs such as ''Final Fantasy'', which shows in her works. She was also good friends of Jun Mochizuki and Yana Toboso. Fujiwara's works ''Watashi no Ookami-san'' and ''Dear'' have both been published in Square Enix's ''Monthly Gangan Wing''. Two drama CDs have been made of her work ''Dear''. Fujiwara's manga ''Inu x Boku SS'' was adapted into an anime series by David Production which aired in Japan between January and March 2012. At the time of her death, she was serializing her manga ''Katsute Mahō Shōjo to Aku wa Tekitai Shiteita.'' in Square Enix's ''Gangan Joker'' online magazine, leaving the series unfinished. Works Manga * ''Calling'' * ''Stray Doll'' * ''Watashi no Ookami-san'' * ''Dear'' * * ''Inu x Boku SS Inu or INU may r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazuko Fujita
(born 18 March 1957 in Niigata, Japan) is a Japanese '' shōjo'' manga artist. She made her professional debut in 1977 in ''Bessatsu Shōjo Comic'' and she has written manga mainly for ''Flower Comics''. She is best known for ''Makoto Call!'' about a girl who plays volleyball, for which she received the 1992 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo. In 2007, her was dramatized on CTV in Taiwan as '' Romantic Princess''. Other series by her include Silver and Gold. Silver is a manga adaptation of a book by Penny Jordan, bearing the same title. Gold is based on Ann Major's novel, "Secret Child." Works *''Momoka Typhoon'' (1987-1989) *''Makoto Call! is a Japanese '' shōjo'' manga series by Kazuko Fujita. The series first appeared in July 1990 on the 15th issue of the semimonthly ''Shōjo Comic''. It won the 37th Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo. While shōjo, the series has elements of ...'' (1990-1992) References External links * Profileat The Ultimate Manga Guide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mihona Fujii
is a Japanese shōjo Mangaka, manga artist. She is best known for her manga ''Gals!, GALS!'', which was published in ''Ribon'' magazine, and adapted into an anime television series under the name ''Super GALS! Kotobuki Ran''. Her debut work was ''Mujaki na mama de'', published in the 1990 autumn issue of ''Ribon Original''. In 2006, she created ''Tokyo Angels'' which ran in ''Margaret (magazine), Margaret'' throughout that year. In 2019, she revived ''Gals!'' on the MangaMee app and confirmed that it is a continuation. Works References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Fujii, Mihona Women manga artists Living people 1974 births Manga artists from Tokyo Japanese female comics artists Female comics writers 20th-century Japanese women writers 21st-century Japanese women writers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chie Fueki
Chie Fueki (born 1973) is a Japanese American painter. She has had an active career exhibiting her work in commercial galleries, and has been awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. Fueki's intricate paintings combine influences from both Eastern and Western traditions. She currently lives and works in Beacon, New York. Early life and education Fueki was born in Yokohama, Japan, in 1973. She spent her childhood in São Paulo, Brazil. Fueki studied at the Ringling College of Art & Design in Sarasota, Florida, receiving a BFA in 1996. She received her MFA from Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1998. Fueki then studied at the Yale Norfolk School of Art in Norfolk Connecticut in 1995. Artistic practice Fueki's intricately patterned and detailed paintings, often created on mulberry paper or wood panel, combine influences from both Eastern and Western decorative and folk arts and range in subject from sports imagery to more traditional subjects such as memento mori a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nariko Enomoto
Nariko Enomoto (榎本ナリコ) (born 1967) is a Japanese manga author and manga critic who uses this name for children's and women's magazines. She writes under the name for Boys Love and doujinshi, and for critical works. She made her professional debut in 1997 with , published by Shogakukan. She won a special award in the Sense of Gender Awards in 2003 with her work . Works As Nariko Enomoto * * * (adaptation of story by Natsume Sōseki , born , was a Japanese novelist. He is best known around the world for his novels ''Kokoro'', '' Botchan'', ''I Am a Cat'', '' Kusamakura'' and his unfinished work '' Light and Darkness''. He was also a scholar of British literature and writer ...) * References External links Official site * Living people 1967 births 20th-century Japanese women artists Manga artists from Tokyo Japanese female comics artists Women manga artists Female comics writers Japanese women writers Japanese writers {{Manga-artist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinuko Emi
Kinuko Emi (江見絹子, ''Emi Kinuko''; born ''Ogino Kinuko'', 荻野絹子, on June 7, 1923, died on January 13, 2015) was a Japanese painter. Emi is best known for her abstract painting in bold colors featuring the motif of four classical elements (fire, air, water, and earth). At the 31st Venice Biennale in 1962, Emi's work was exhibited in the Japan Pavilion alongside that of four male artists, making her the first Japanese woman artist to be shown at the country's Pavilion. She had retrospective exhibitions at the Yokohama Civic Art Gallery in 1996, the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura in 2004 and Himeji City Museum of Art in 2010. Emi's works are in the collection of the National Museum of Art, Osaka, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama, Yokohama Museum of Art, and Takamatsu Art Museum, among others. Emi's daughter, Anna Ogino, is an Akutagawa Prize-winning novelist and emeritus professor of French literature at Keio Universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eiki Eiki
is a Japanese manga artist who has been creating manga since 1998. Most of her manga are written under the yaoi and yuri genre. Biography She is the grandchild of former Prime minister of Japan Noboru Takeshita and the older sister of rock singer Daigo. She lived in Ichikawa, Chiba but had to move back to Tokyo after her grandfather became the prime minister of Japan. As of 11 January 2016, she is the sister-in-law of actress Keiko Kitagawa. One of her good friends, also a fellow manga artist, is Mikiyo Tsuda, otherwise known as Taishi Zaō. They often co-author manga together, display their art together, and have autograph sessions together, among other things. Eiki Eiki has even been known to sometimes act as Taishi Zaō's manager.''Afterword section in the Digital Manga Publishing version of The Day of Revolution, volume 1'' Eiki Eiki's persona is that of a rabbit wearing a red bow tie. Works *'' The Art of Loving'' *''Dear Myself'' **'' Unmei ni Kiss'' - sequel **'' World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clamp (manga Artists)
Clamp (stylized as CLAMP) is an all-female Japanese Mangaka, manga artist group, consisting of leader and writer Nanase Ohkawa (born in Osaka), and three artists whose roles shift for each series: Mokona, Tsubaki Nekoi, and Satsuki Igarashi (all born in Kyoto). Clamp was first formed in the mid-1980s as an eleven-member group creating ''dōjinshi'' (self-published Fan labor, fan works), and began creating original manga in 1987. By the time the group made its mainstream publishing debut with ''RG Veda'' in 1989, it was reduced to seven members; three more members left in 1993, leaving the four current members of the group. Notable works by Clamp include ''X (manga), X'' (1992), ''Magic Knight Rayearth'' (1993), ''Cardcaptor Sakura'' (1996) and its sequel ''Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card'' (2016), ''Chobits'' (2000), and ''xxxHolic'' and ''Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle'' (both 2003). Various series by the group cross-reference each other, and characters reappear in multiple works by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nanae Chrono
Nanae Chrono, known in Japan as is a female Japanese manga artist. She is best known as the creator of the manga series ''Peacemaker Kurogane'', ''Senki Senki Momotama'', and ''Vassalord''. Works Serials *; (1999) :This was a oneshot manga originally published in ''Shounen Gangan'' magazine. *; (1999) :Originally, as , it was published in ''Monthly Shōnen Gangan'' and ran for six volumes. It was licensed in English by Tokyopop. *; (2005) :This ten volume series ran in ''Comic Blade'' magazine and then in ''Web Comic Beat's'' online magazine. *; (2006) :This seven volume series ran in ''Comic Blade'' Magazine. The first four volumes have been released in English. *; (2008) :A three volume series written by Nanae Chrono but drawn by Nakabayashin Takamasa. Artbooks *; :Peacemaker Kurogane 92pages of full color artbook. First Printed in 2004 *;''Chrono Graffiti'' :A compact Illustration with 402 pages of full color. Side A features art from ''Senki Senki Momotama'', Side B cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
