Kuniko Tsurita

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Kuniko Tsurita ( Japanese く に こ つ り た ; * October 25, 1947 , † June 14, 1985 ) was a Japanese mangaka .

Career

Even when Tsurita went to middle school, she was enthusiastic about manga and mainly read the Shōjo series and Kashihon - books aimed at adults from lending libraries. She also drew herself and submitted many articles to magazines, but remained unsuccessful for a long time, also because as a girl she was not trusted to do the action stories preferred by Tsurita. From 1965 she published in the alternative magazine Garo , which gave Tsurita the artistic freedom she wanted. She remained loyal to the magazine until her death in 1985 and was the only woman who published in the magazine on a permanent basis.

Her editor Katsuichi Nagai described her style as an attempt to create manga as sophisticated as literature, comparable to the gekiga movement of that time. Tsurita's style continued to evolve. From initially simple, rough drawings she came to pictures that were designed with large black areas and fine lines, comparable to Käthe Kollwitz and Marjane Satrapi . Her late work showed fantastic backgrounds, based on Tsurita's role model, Aubrey Beardsley . Their stories mostly tell of women who are in conflict with their roles in a sexist and patriarchal society.

In her own too, Tsurita refused to bow to gender roles. So she smoked publicly - unusual for Japanese women at the time - and watched pornographic films in the cinema. Tsurita was married to Naoyuki Takahashi.

Your stories, which can be assigned to the alternative manga , are mostly short stories. Some of them appeared collected in 1979 in Rokunomiya Himeko no Higeki ( 六 の 宮 姫 子 の 悲劇 ). In 2020 an English edition was published by Drawn & Quarterly .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Gabrielle Bellot: The Groundbreaking Female Artist Who Shaped Manga History. The Atlantic, August 5, 2020, accessed August 10, 2020 .
  2. ^ Author profile at Drawn & Quarterly. Accessed August 10, 2020 (English).
  3. ↑ book Profile by Drawn & Quarterly. Accessed August 10, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Tsurita, Kuniko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES く に こ つ り た (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION japanese mangaka
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1947
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1985