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List Of 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] [Amazon] |
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south. The Japanese archipelago consists of four major islands—Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu—and List of islands of Japan, thousands of smaller islands, covering . Japan has a population of over 123 million as of 2025, making it the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh-most populous country. The capital of Japan and List of cities in Japan, its largest city is Tokyo; the Greater Tokyo Area is the List of largest cities, largest metropolitan area in the world, with more than 37 million inhabitants as of 2024. Japan is divided into 47 Prefectures of Japan, administrative prefectures and List of regions of Japan, eight traditional regions. About three-quarters of Geography of Japan, the countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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] [Amazon] |
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. Personal life 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 lets her guard down, she speaks in a Kansai accent, in which she can hardly have control. She also states that current ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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 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 × 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 '' The Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant Used to Be Archenemies'' in Square Enix's '' Gangan Joker'' online magazine, leaving the series unfinished. In November 2023, an anime adaptation of ''The Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant Used to Be Archenemie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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 Margaret Major Cleaves (born February 13, 1946) is an author of over 45 romance novels since 1980, writing under her real name and under the pseudonym Ann Major. She is a founding member of the Romance Writers of America and the co-author of t ...'s novel, ''Secret Child''. Works Manga Artist and Writer *Love Letter ni Kiss *Yasashisa Endless (1980) *Shouhin ni Te wo Dasu na (1985) *Nakaniwa no Ibu-tachi (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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 Japanese female comics writers 20th-century Japanese women writers 21st-century Japanese women writers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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 an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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 for his novels ''Kokoro'', ''Botchan'', ''I Am a Cat'', ''Kusamakura (novel), Kusamakura'' and his unfinished work ''Light and Darkness (novel), Light and Darkness''. He was also a scholar of Br ...) * 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 Japanese female comics writers 20th-century Japanese women writers Japanese writers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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] [Amazon] |
Eiki Eiki
, known professionally as , is a Japanese Mangaka, manga artist. Active since 1998, most of her manga are written under the yaoi and Yuri (genre), yuri genre. Biography Naitō was born on December 6, 1971, in Tokyo. Her grandfather Noboru Takeshita was Prime minister of Japan, and her older brother is the rock singer Daigo (musician), Daigo. She lived in Ichikawa, Chiba but moved back to Tokyo after her grandfather became prime minister. Since 2016, she has been 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. Naitō has sometimes acted as Tsuda's manager.''Afterword section in the Digital Manga Publishing version of The Day of Revolution, volume 1'' Naitō's persona Eiki Eiki's is a rabbit wearing a red bow tie. Works *''The Art of Loving (manga), The Art of Loving'' *''Dear Mys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Clamp (manga Artists)
Clamp (stylized in all caps) is an all-female Japanese 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 the g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Nanae Chrono
is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known as the creator of the manga series ''Peacemaker Kurogane'', ''Momo Tama'', and ''Vassalord''. He is a trans man. Works Serials *; (1999) :A One-shot (comics), one-shot manga originally published in ''Monthly Shōnen Gangan''. *; (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'' and then in ''Web Comic Beat's''. *; (2006) :This seven volume series ran in ''Comic Blade''. 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'' 92-page full color artbook. First printed in 2004. *;''Chrono Graffiti'' :An art book with 402 pages of full color illustrations. Side A features art from ''Momo Tama'' and Side B contains art from various series including ''Vassalord'' and ''Ile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
