is a Japanese

manga artist A manga artist, also known as a mangaka (), is a Cartoonist, comic artist who writes and/or illustrates manga. Most manga artists study at an art college or manga school or take on an apprenticeship with another artist before entering the indus ...

and author of long-running '' shōjo'' manga ''

Glass Mask is a Japanese shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Suzue Miuchi, serialized in ''Hana to Yume'' from January 1976, and collected in 49 tankōbon volumes as of October 2012. The story has also been adapted into anime and a liv ...

''.

Life

She was born in

Nishinomiya 270px, Nishinomiya City Hall 270px, Aerial view of Nishinomiya city center 1985 270px, Hirota Shrine is a city located in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 484,368 in 218,948 households and a population density ...

, Japan and grew up in

Osaka is a Cities designated by government ordinance of Japan, designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the List of cities in Japan, third-most populous city in J ...

. She lived nearby a rental bookstore (

kashi-hon is a Japanese phrase for books and magazines that are rented out. refers to the book rental service it was based on, also just simply called . began in Japan around c. 1630 because books were too expensive for common people to buy, and the ...

) in her childhood and started drawing manga herself, when she had too many unpaid bills at a rental bookstore and her mother forbid her to continue reading manga. Miuchi made her professional debut as a manga artist in 1967, aged only 16, with the manga ''Yama no Tsuki to Kodanuki'' in the shōjo magazine ''

Bessatsu Margaret , or for short, is a shōjo manga magazine published monthly in Japan by Shueisha since 1964. The stories featured in it are noted to have an emphasis on character growth, focusing on themes of interpersonal relationships and settings of ever ...

''. Her early debut as a highschool-aged manga artist inspired

Yukari Ichijo is a Japanese '' shōjo'' and '' josei'' manga artist. She made her debut as a professional manga artist in 1968 with ''Yuki no Serenade''. In 1986 she received the Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo for ''Yūkan Club'', and in 2007, she received ...

to start a professional career as a manga artist at the time. She became famous for publishing short stories in the early 1970s, among them also horror manga. Her 1975 short story ''Shiroi Kagebōshi'' is considered a classic of shōjo horror manga. Her biggest success came in 1976, when she began the long-running series ''

'' about a girl becoming a famous theater actress. The manga has been adapated into a stage play, a live-action TV series and two anime series. She continued publishing ''Glass Mask'' until 2012, when she went on hiatus with the series. She won the

Kodansha Manga Award is one of Japan's major manga awards. The event is sponsored by publisher Kodansha. It has been awarded annually for serialized manga in its third iteration since 1977. Categories The award was originally called the until 1968. In 1970, it was ...

(1982) for ''Yōkihi-den'' and the

Japan Cartoonists Association Award is an annual award for manga are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long history in earlier Japanese art. The term is used i ...

(1995) for ''Glass Mask''.

Works

Series

* ''Moeru Niji'' (燃える虹), 1970 * ''13-gatsu no Higeki'' (13月の悲劇), 1971 * ''Amaranth no Joō'' (アマランスの女王), 1972 * ''Harukanaru Kaze to Hikari'' (はるかなる風と光), 1973–1974 * ''Kujaku-iro no Kanaria'' (孔雀色のカナリア), 1973–1974 * ''Shira-yuri no Kishi'' (白ゆりの騎士), 1974–1975 * ''

'' (ガラスの仮面, ''Garasu no Kamen''), 1976–1997, 2008–2012, serialized in ''

Hana to Yume , also known as , is a semi-monthly Japanese manga magazine published by Hakusensha on the 5th and 20th of every month. The magazine is B5-size, and always comes with or free supplements, such as drama CDs, pencil boards (shitajiki), manga ...

'' and ''

Bessatsu Hana to Yume , also known as , was a Japanese manga magazine published by Hakusensha from 1977 to 2018. It was a sister magazine to . History was launched in July 1977 as a sister magazine to . After 41 years, it ceased publication with the release of it ...

'' * ''Saint Alice Teikoku'' (聖アリス帝国, ''Sei-Arisu Teikoku''), 1976–1978 *''Bara Monogatari'' (バラ物語), 1979 * ''Yōkihi-den'' (妖鬼妃伝), 1981 * ''Dynamite Milk Pie'' (ダイナマイト・みるく・パイ, ''Dainamaito Miruku Pai''), 1982 * ''Amaterasu'' (アマテラス), 1986–2001

One-shots

*''Yama no Tsuki to Kodanuki to'' (山の月とこだぬきと), 1967 *''Shiroi Kagebōshi'' (白い影法師), 1975, published in ''Mimi'' *''Dynamite Milkpie'' *''Futari no Melody'' *''Kaerazaru Hyuuga'' *''Majou Medea'' *''Niji no Ikusa'' *''Oujo Alexandra'' *''Pollyana's Knight'' *''Shiroi Kageboshi''

References

External links

Miuchi's homepage
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