is a Japanese manga artist. She is one of the

Year 24 Group The is a grouping of female manga artists who heavily influenced ''shōjo'' manga (Japanese girls' comics) beginning in the 1970s. While ''shōjo'' manga of the 1950s and 1960s largely consisted of simple stories marketed towards elementary s ...

, 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 Kamisunagawa, Hokkaido, Japan. As a child, she studied ballet, which plays a part in many of her works. When she read the manga of

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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 '' Shōjo Friend'' and was a semi-finalist. She applied to Kodansha and sent some short stories to '' COM''. In 1968, after completing her art studies in Hokkaido, she moved to Tokyo and applied for

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. The next year, she made her professional debut with ''Left and Right'', a short story published in ''Ribon Comic'', a spin-off of '' Ribon''. In 1971, she released the one-shot 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 Kodansha Manga Award in the manga category for . She worked on '' Terpsichora'', which was nominated for the 9th annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize 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 Art Nouveau. 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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