is a Japanese
manga artist.
Yamashita started her career as a
shōjo manga artist. She made her debut as a professional artist in 1980 in the magazine
Margaret. In her early years, she was inspired by the style of
Mariko Iwadate
is a Japanese '' shōjo'' manga artist who writes primarily for '' Margaret'' and '' Young You''. She made her debut as a manga artist in 1973. She won the 1992 Kodansha Manga Award for ''shōjo'' for ''Uchi no Mama ga iu Koto ni wa'', and her ...
.
She is best known for ''
The Life of Genius Professor Yanagizawa'', which is being published in the
seinen
is an editorial category of Japanese comics marketed toward young adult men. In Japanese, the word ''seinen'' literally means "youth", but the term "''seinen'' manga" is also used to describe the target audience of magazines like '' Weekly Ma ...
magazine ''
Morning
Morning is the period from sunrise to noon. There are no exact times for when morning begins (also true of evening and night) because it can vary according to one's lifestyle and the hours of daylight at each time of year. However, morning s ...
'', and for which she received the 2003
Kodansha Manga Award for general manga.
The main character of the manga is modeled after her own father.
For her series ''Land'' she received the Grand Prize at the
Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize 2021.
Selected works
*
* , since 1988
* , since 2001
*''Melo Neko: Neko Manga Anthology (''めろねこ 猫まんがアンソロジ''ー Melo Neko'')
*''Suki desu!'' (数寄です!), 2010-2013
*''Land'' (ランド ''Rando''), 2014-2020
References
External links
Official Website
*
at The Ultimate Manga Page
1959 births
Living people
Female comics writers
Japanese female comics artists
Japanese women writers
Japanese writers
Manga artists from Hokkaido
People from Otaru
Winner of Kodansha Manga Award (General)
Winner of Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize (Grand Prize)
Women manga artists
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