Waki Yamato

Waki Yamato
大和 和紀
Born (1948-03-13) March 13, 1948
Sapporo, Japan
Nationality Japanese
Area(s) Manga artist
Notable works
 Haikara-san ga Tōru
Asaki Yume Mishi
Awards 1st Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo - Haikara-san ga Tōru

Waki Yamato (大和 和紀 Yamato Waki, born March 13, 1948 in Sapporo) is a Japanese manga artist. She debuted in 1966 with the short story Dorobou Tenshi.[1][2]

Since this debut, Yamato steadily created and published a variety of works in the genre of shōjo manga. Among her early time works, Mon Cherie CoCo, 1971, was adapted into an anime television series, and her work, Haikara-san ga Tōru, 1975 to 1977, was very successful, winning the 1st Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo in 1977.[2][3] It was also made into a musical for the Takarazuka Revue, an anime series (which reached an international audience through TV broadcasts in Italy and France), and a live-action movie. Through these early works, she established her position as one of the most popular manga artists.

Works

After the success of Haikara-san ga Tōru, she continued to create many manga, including the comedy Aramis '78 (series), Yokohama Monogatari (The Story of Yokohama), and N. Y. Komachi (The Belle of New York). The latter two were historical manga, set during the Meiji period.

The heroines of these stories were active girls who traveled overseas. Yamato's early work Reidii Mitsuko (Lady Mitsuko), 1976, was based on the true story of Mitsuko Aoyama, who was the mother of Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi.

Similarly, in Yokohama Monogatri, Uno visits California, marries her Japanese lover there and returns to Yokohama, while Mariko visits London to meet her Japanese husband. In N. Y. Komachi tomboy Shino travels to New York and becomes a camerawoman. At the end she settles in America with her husband Danny.

Asaki Yume Mishi

Yamato's major work is Asaki Yume Mishi. Yamato spent 13 years (1980–93) completing this famous long work, based on Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji. Yamato studied the historical details of the Heian period. But she made radical changes to the characters and plot, to fit contemporary mores. Yet her work remains one of the best visualizations of the Heian era.

List of Works

Notes

  1. ↑ According to ｢BOOK著者紹介情報｣, which can be confirmed in this Amazon page etc.
  2. 1 2 ｢あさきゆめみし PerfectBook｣ p.181 Special Interview
  3. ↑ Joel Hahn. "Kodansha Manga Awards". Comic Book Awards Almanac. Archived from the original on 2007-08-16. Retrieved 2007-08-21.
  4. ↑ The story of Japanese woman, Mitsuko Aoyama, who is the mother of Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi

References

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