is a Japanese

manga artist A is a comic artist who writes and/or illustrates manga. As of 2006, about 3,000 professional manga artists were working in Japan. Most manga artists study at an art college or manga school or take on an apprenticeship with another artist be ...

. She is one of the Year 24 Group, a collection of female artists who innovated (girls') manga throughout the 1970s. Her major works include and '' Terpsichora''.

Biography

Ryoko Yamagishi was born on September 24, 1947, in

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, Japan. As a child, she studied ballet, which plays a part in many of her works. When she read the manga of Machiko Satonaka in 1964, she decided to pursue becoming a manga artist. Although her parents did not agree with this, in 1966 she entered a competition in ''

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'' and was a semi-finalist. She applied to

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and sent some short stories to ''

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''. In 1968, after completing her art studies in Hokkaido, she moved to Tokyo and applied for Shueisha. The next year, she made her professional debut with ''Left and Right'', a short story published in ''Ribon Comic'', a spin-off of ''

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''. In 1971, she released the

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manga , which tells the story of a romance between two students at an all-girls boarding school in France. It was published by Shueisha in ''Ribon Comic'' and is regarded as the first (female-female romance) manga. In 1983, she won the

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in the manga category for . She worked on '' Terpsichora'', which was nominated for the 9th annual

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in 2005 and won the 11th annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2007. Her works normally have occult themes, although her most popular are ''Arabesque'', about Russian ballet, and . According to

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, Yamagishi's style is influenced by

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. Her work was exhibited at the in Tokyo from September to December 2016.

Works

Serializations

Selected one-shots

Art books

, + List of art books by Ryoko Yamagishi

References

External links

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