is a Japanese
manga artist.
Life
Hanawa was born in
Yorii, Saitama Prefecture. Since 1970 he worked as an illustrator. After reading the works of
Yoshiharu Tsuge
is a Japanese cartoonist and essayist. He was active in comics between 1955 and 1987. His works range from tales of ordinary life to dream-like surrealism, and often show his interest in traveling about Japan. He has garnered the most atte ...
, he decided to switch to comic books. Hanawa's first work as a cartoonist was in 1971 with the short story "Kan no Mushi" () about a boy whose mother sends him to a sadistic acupuncturist, in the alternative manga magazine ''
Garo
Garo may refer to:
People and languages
* Garo people, a tribal people in India
** Garo language, the language spoken by the Garo tribe
Places
* Kingdom of Garo, a former kingdom in southern Ethiopia
* Garo, Colorado
* Garo Hills, part of the Ga ...
'' where he mainly worked in his career to follow. From 1992 to 1994 he drew the manga series ''Tensui'' () for ''
Afternoon
Afternoon is the time after solar noon. It is the time when the sun is descending from its peak in the sky to somewhat before its terminus at the horizon in the west. In human life, it occupies roughly the latter half of the standard work a ...
'' magazine, which achieved a much higher circulation than ''Garo'' and similar underground publications. Through his work for ''Afternoon'' and other mainstream magazines such as ''
Manga Action'' and ''Super Action'', he became known to a wider audience. Since 1998, Hanawa has been working for ''
AX'', the successor of ''Garo''.
In December 1994, he was arrested for illegally possessing modified model weapons and sentenced to three years in prison.
Afterwards, he worked on the manga , recalling his detention, for which he was nominated for the 2001
Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize and the 2006
Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Scenario
This Prize for Scenario is awarded to comics authors at the Angoulême International Comics Festival.
In the following list, the winner of the award is listed first, followed by the nominees.
1990s
* 1993: '' Saigon-Hanoï'' by Cosey, Dupuis
* 1 ...
. This autobiographical work became a bestseller and received a
film adaptation in 2002 under the direction of
Yoichi Sai
was a Japanese film director. He was the president of the Directors Guild of Japan.
Life and career
Sai was born on 6 July 1949 in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. His mother was Japanese and his father was Zainichi Korean.
Sai won the Best Screenp ...
. Masanao Amano describes how the "outstanding realism" of the work is almost overwhelming to the reader: "Due to the documentary-like style without any sense of desire and political message
he readeris completely sucked into the work."
His 2014 horror short story collection ''Juso'' ("Curse") was a Jury selected work at the 2015
Japan Media Arts Festival
The Japan Media Arts Festival is an annual festival held since 1997 by Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs. The festival begins with an open competition and culminates with the awarding of several prizes and an exhibition.
Based on judging by a ...
.
Style and themes
Hanawa is sometimes considered the successor to Yoshiharu Tsuge. At the beginning of his career, he dedicated himself to the
ero-guro
is an artistic genre that puts its focus on eroticism, sexual corruption, and decadence.Silverberg, Miriam Rom. "By Way of a Preface: Defining ''Erotic Grotesque Nonsense''". Galley copy of the preface for ''Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass C ...
style and created erotic-grotesque works like ''Akai Yoru'' (), about a samurai who rejects his thoughts of revenge and is driven to suicide by his wife, and ''Niku Yashiki'' (). Many of these works were parodies of militarism and the traditional values of Japanese culture. From the beginning of the 1980s, his manga were spiritually influenced by Buddhism and were located mainly in the Japan of the
Edo and the
Meiji period
The is an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868 to July 30, 1912.
The Meiji era was the first half of the Empire of Japan, when the Japanese people moved from being an isolated feudal society at risk of colonization ...
s and in a futuristic setting. The faces of his characters are reminiscent of
Ukiyo-e
Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk t ...
; his drawings are detailed and dark.
Legacy
Manga artist
Gengoroh Tagame
is a pseudonymous Japanese manga artist. Regarded as the most influential creator in the gay manga genre, he has produced over 20 books in four languages over the course of his nearly four decade-long career. Tagame began contributing manga ...
cites Hanawa's depictions of extreme violence as an influence for his work.
His work has been translated into English, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian.
Selected works
* "Kan no Mushi" (かんのむし, one-shot in
''Garo'', 1971)
* ''Gōho Dōji'' (護法童子, 1984-1986)
* ''Otogizōshi'' (御伽草子, 1991)
* ''Tensui'' (天水, serialized in ''
Monthly Afternoon
is a Japanese monthly ''seinen'' manga anthology published by Kodansha under the ''Afternoon'' line of magazines. The first issue was released with a cover date of January 25, 1986. ''Afternoon'' has spawned many successful manga series such as ...
'', 1992-1994)
*
''Doing Time'' (刑務所の中 ''Keimusho no Naka'', serialized in
''AX'', 1998-2000)
* ''Nippon Mukashibanashi'' (ニッポン昔話, 2000)
* ''Fujōbutsu Rei Dōjo'' (不成仏霊童女, serialized in ''
Horror M'', 2000–2007)
* ''Keimusho no Mae'' (刑務所の前, 2002-2007)
* ''Juso'' (呪詛, 2014)
References
External links
花輪和一先生の情報願いま~す!- 非公式情報Twitterアカウント
- 非公式ファンサイト(現在は更新されていない)
花輪和一インタビュー- ガロ 1992年5月号
花輪和一「因果的表現の第一人者」- 山田視覚芸術研究室
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Living people
Manga artists from Saitama Prefecture
1947 births