Murasaki Yamada

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Murasaki Yamada ( Japanese や ま だ 紫 , Yamada Murasaki ; actually: 白 取 三 津 子 , Shiratori Mitsuko ; born September 5, 1948 in Tokyo ; † May 5, 2009 in Kyoto ) was a Japanese manga artist , illustrator and essayist.

biography

After completing an art education, Muraksaki Yamada published her first comic book in 1969 on COM , a manga magazine directed by Osamu Tezuka that specialized in avant-garde comics. After the early termination of COM in 1971, she published in the Garo magazine , for which she mainly worked from then on. Later she also published a few essays.

In the last years of her life - since 2006 - Yamada taught as a professor at the Manga Faculty of Kyoto Seika University .

Style and effect

With her feminist , poetic works, which could not be classified into the common conventions of Shōjo- Manga, Yamada had a great influence at the beginning of her career on young illustrators such as Hinako Sugiura and Yōko Kondō , who worked for her as assistants, but also later artists like Kiriko Nananan . She was one of the founders of an experimental interpretation of the Josei manga that emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s .

A distinction is made between two directions in Yamada's work: on the one hand comics that place animals in the foreground, and on the other hand comics in which people act as protagonists. The latter includes the semi-autobiographical manga Shin Kirari , which was published in Garo from 1981 to 1982 . Here she describes how a mother of two slowly notices how after ten years their marriage falls apart, and how she takes emancipatory steps from this knowledge, for example, against the protests of her husband, to take up a job. In the animal mangas, on the other hand, the action is often presented from the perspective of cats, who for Yamada represent a substitute for human characters: "[The animals] can express for me those things that I normally don't dare to say."

An exception to this division of her entire work in two directions is for example her implementation of the classic Otogizōshi stories as a manga, published in 1997 .

Works (selection)

  • Shōwaru Neko ( 性 悪 猫 ), 1980
  • Shin Kirari ( し ん き ら り ), 1981–1982
  • Yurariusu-iro ( ゆ ら り う す 色 ), 1984
  • Blue Sky , 1992-1993
  • Yume no Maigo-tachi - Les Enfants Reveurs ( 夢 の 迷 子 た ち ), 1995
  • Otogizōshi ( 御 伽 草 子 ), 1997
  • Ai no Katachi ( 愛 の か た ち ), 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frederik L. Schodt: Dreamland Japan . P. 155.
  2. ↑ Kiriko Nananan at lambiek.net (English)
  3. ^ Frederik L. Schodt: Dreamland Japan . P. 157.
  4. ^ Frederik L. Schodt: Dreamland Japan . P. 158.
personal data
SURNAME Yamada, Murasaki
ALTERNATIVE NAMES や ま だ 紫 (Japanese); Shiratori Mitsuko (real name); 白 取 三 津 子 (Japanese, real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese manga artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo , Japan
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 2009
Place of death Kyoto , Japan