Miyako Maki
is a Japanese manga artist, and one of the earliest female manga artists. During the 1960s, Maki contributed significantly to the development of ''shōjo'' manga (manga for girls), and became one of the most popular ''shōjo'' authors of her generation. She later became a pioneer in manga for adults, producing '' gekiga'' and '' redikomi'' towards the end of that decade. She is the wife of manga artist Leiji Matsumoto, with whom she has collaborated with on multiple works. Miyako created Licca-chan, a popular Japanese doll manufactured by Takara. Works by Maki have been awarded the Japan Cartoonists Association Award, the Montreal International Comic Contest prize, and the Shogakukan Manga Award. Early life Miyako Maki was born 29 July 1935 in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture. She did not discover manga until graduating from high school – her parents started a book distribution company in Osaka which distributed manga, and Maki became interested by the possibilities of expression offe ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kobe
Kobe ( , ; officially , ) is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture Japan. With a population around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Tokyo and Yokohama. It is located in Kansai region, which makes up the southern side of the main island of Honshū, on the north shore of Osaka Bay. It is part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kyoto. The Kobe city centre is located about west of Osaka and southwest of Kyoto. The earliest written records regarding the region come from the '' Nihon Shoki'', which describes the founding of the Ikuta Shrine by Empress Jingū in AD 201.Ikuta Shrine official website – "History of Ikuta Shrine" (Japanese) [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Shogakukan
is a Japanese publisher of dictionaries, literature, comics (manga), non-fiction, DVDs, and other media in Japan. Shogakukan founded Shueisha, which also founded Hakusensha. These are three separate companies, but are together called the Hitotsubashi Group, one of the largest publishing groups in Japan. Shogakukan is headquartered in the Shogakukan Building in Hitotsubashi, part of Kanda, Chiyoda, Tokyo, near the Jimbocho book district. The corporation also has the other two companies located in the same ward. International operations In the United States Shogakukan, along with Shueisha, owns Viz Media, which publishes manga from both companies in the United States. Shogakukan's licensing arm in North America was ShoPro Entertainment; it was merged into Viz Media in 2005. Shogakukan's production arm is Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions (previously Shogakukan Productions Co., Ltd.) In March 2010 it was announced that Shogakukan would partner with the American comics publish ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Genji Monogatari (manga)
is a Japanese manga version of Murasaki Shikibu's '' The Tale of Genji'' by Miyako Maki. In 1989, it received the 34th Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga. See also * List of characters from ''The Tale of Genji'' *'' The Tale of Genji'' - Waki Yamato is a Japanese manga artist. She debuted in 1966 with the short story ''Dorobō Tenshi''.「あさきゆめみし PerfectBook」 p.181 Special Interview Since her debut, Yamato steadily created and published a variety of works in the genre of s ...'s 1980-1993 manga adaptation of the tale. References *Maki Miyako volume 1 Shogakukan 1997/11/17ISBN 4091912117 *Maki Miyako volume 2 Shogakukan 1998/01/17 *Maki Miyako volume 3 Shogakukan 1998/01/17 *Maki Miyako volume 4 Shogakukan 1998/02/17 *Maki Miyako volume 5 Shogakukan 1998/02/17 *Maki Miyako volume 6 Shogakukan 1998/04/17 源氏物語(小学館文庫)Shogakukan Online Manga based on novels Shogakukan manga Winners of the Shogakukan Manga Award for ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hideko Mizuno
is one of the first successful female Japanese shōjo manga artists. She was an assistant of Osamu Tezuka staying in Tokiwa-sō. She made her professional debut in 1955 with ''Akakke Kōma Pony'', a Western story with a tomboy heroine. She became a prominent shōjo artist in the 1960s and 1970s, starting with ''White Troika'', which serialized in '' Margaret'' in 1963. Mizuno is best known for '' Fire!'' (1969–1971), one of the first shōjo manga with a boy protagonist, for which she won the 1970 Shogakukan Manga Award. Her ''Honey Honey no Suteki na Bouken'' (1966) was adapted as an anime television series, licensed in English as ''Honey Honey'' on CBN Cable Network. Early life Hideko Mizuno discovered manga very early: at the age of 8 she read the manga ''Shin Takarajima'' by Osamu Tezuka as well as his book ''Manga Daigaku'' which teaches the basics of manga creation, thanks to these two books, she took Tezuka as a model and decided to become a mangaka. In 1952 at the a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Masako Watanabe
(born 16 May 1929, in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese manga artist. She began her professional career as an illustrator of books in 1949. She switched to creating manga after reading Osamu Tezuka's works, debuting in 1952 with ''Namida no Sanbika''. She quickly became the most popular female manga artist of her time. She was noted in the 1960s for using pastel colors instead of the bright primary colors common at the time, and for pioneering both '' shōjo'' (written for teenage girls) horror stories with ''Blue Foxfire'' and ''shōjo'' mystery stories with ''Glass no Shiro'' (''Glass Castle''). In 1971, she received the Shogakukan Manga Award The is one of Japan's major manga awards, and is sponsored by Shogakukan, 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 ... for ''Glass no Shiro'' and ''Sei Rosalindo''. In the 1980s, she turned from ''shōjo'' to se ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Josei Manga
, also known as and its abbreviation , is an editorial category of Japanese comics that emerged in the 1980s. In a strict sense, ''josei'' refers to manga marketed to an audience of adult women, contrasting ''shōjo'' manga, which is marketed to an audience of girls and young adult women. In practice, the distinction between ''shōjo'' and ''josei'' is often tenuous; while the two were initially divergent categories, many manga works exhibit narrative and stylistic traits associated with both ''shōjo'' and ''josei'' manga. This distinction is further complicated by a third manga editorial category, , which emerged in the late 1980s as an intermediate category between ''shōjo'' and ''josei''. ''Josei'' manga is traditionally printed in dedicated manga magazines which often specialize in a specific subgenre, typically drama, romance, or pornography. While ''josei'' dramas are in most cases realist stories about the lives of ordinary women, romance ''josei'' manga are typic ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kōsei Ono (comics Researcher)
is a Japanese film critic, cartoon critic, comic translator and overseas comic / animation researcher. Ono is the leading authority on the publication, research and introduction of overseas comics (''gaikoku manga'') in Japan. From 1963 to 1974 he worked for NHK. He is a visiting professor in the Asia Department of Kokushikan University, a board member of the Japan Society for Studies in Manga and Comic Art, and a member of ASIFA JAPAN, the Japan Cartoonists Association, and the Japan Science Fiction Writer's Club. Life Ono was born in Setagaya, Tokyo. His father was the mangaka . He graduated from the International Christian University of Tokyo in 1963. In 1968, invited by Osamu Tezuka, Ono wrote a column for COM magazine, , presenting foreign (especially American) comics titles to Japanese readers. In 1970 he partnered with Ryoichi Ikegami on writing the manga adaptation of Spider-Man for ''Shonen Magazine''. Ono wrote a number of books about comics, such as and , and ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Montreal
Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-most populous city in Canada and List of towns in Quebec, most populous city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as ''Fort Ville-Marie, Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill around which the early city of Ville-Marie is built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal, which obtained its name from the same origin as the city, and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is east of the national capital Ottawa, and southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City. As of 2021, the city had a population of 1,762,949, and a Census Metropolitan Area#Census metropolitan areas, metropolitan population of 4,291,732, making it the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest city, and List of cen ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kazuo Kamimura
was a Japanese manga artist, best known as the illustrator of ''Lady Snowblood (manga), Lady Snowblood'', which was adapted into Lady Snowblood (film), film in 1973. Hitoshi Iwaaki, a manga artist was his assistant. Kamimura died at age 45 of a pharynx tumor. References External links Kamimura Kazuo Official Site* Comiclopedia page.] 1940 births 1986 deaths Manga artists People from Yokosuka, Kanagawa {{Manga-artist-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Masaki Tsuji
is a Japanese anime screenwriter, mystery writer, manga author, travel critic, essayist, professor as well as mystery fiction novels writer. Tsuji was most active in the business from the 1960s through the 1980s, and worked as a script writer on many popular anime television series for Mushi Production, Toei Animation, and Tokyo Movie Shinsha. He is well known for his association with the animated adaptations of the works of Osamu Tezuka and Go Nagai. In April 2007, Tsuji headed Japan's first international anime research lab as part of Digital Hollywood University. On December 4, 2007, Tsuji was given a lifetime achievement award at the 11th Japan Media Arts Festival. On September 24, 2008, Tsuji won a Special Award in the 13th Animation Kobe for his writing work. Filmography See also * Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan is a Japan-based organization for mystery writers who write ''honkaku'' (i.e. authentic, orthodox) mystery. The organization was founded on 3 November ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tetsuya Chiba
is a Japanese manga artist famous for his sports stories. Chiba's works include ''Ashita no Joe'', his best known work, and ''Notari Matsutarō''. Many of his early titles are still in print due to continued popularity. Life He was born in Chuo, Tokyo, Japan, but lived most of his early childhood in Shenyang, Liaoning when northeast China was colonized by Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War. His father was working in a paper factory when they lived in China. At the end of the Sino-Japanese War, Chiba's family lived in the attic of a work-acquaintance of his father until they could find a way to get back to Japan. Two of his younger brothers are manga artists: Akio Chiba, and Shigeyuki Chiba who is almost completely unknown outside Japan, despite writing many popular sports manga in Japan. Shigeyuki Chiba works under the pen name Taro Nami. In 1950, while in elementary school, he made a manga club with his friends. He created his first official manga, ''Fukushu no Semush ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Western Culture
Leonardo da Vinci's ''Vitruvian Man''. Based on the correlations of ideal Body proportions">human proportions with geometry described by the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius in Book III of his treatise ''De architectura''. image:Plato Pio-Clemetino Inv305.jpg, upPlato, arguably the most influential figure in all of Western philosophy and has influenced virtually all of subsequent Western and Middle Eastern philosophy and theology. Western culture, also known as Western civilization, Occidental culture, or Western society, is the Cultural heritage, heritage of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems, artifacts and technologies of the Western world. The term applies beyond Europe to countries and cultures whose histories are strongly connected to Europe by immigration, colonization or influence. Western culture is most strongly influenced by Greco-Roman culture, Germanic culture, and Christian culture. The expansion of Greek cul ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |