is a Japanese

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. 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''.

Life and career

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

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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 ''

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''. 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.

Style and themes

Her works normally have occult themes, although her most popular are ''Arabesque'', about Russian ballet, and . According to Yoshihiro Yonezawa, Yamagishi's style is influenced by

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Reception

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. It was also among the jury-selected works of Japan Media Arts Festival 2002. 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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