Murasaki Yamada

Official Websitehttps://yamadamurasaki.com/ Murasaki Yamada was a Japanese feminist essayist mangaka and poet. She debuted as a mangaka with her work Hidarite no which was published in the May issue of COM in 1969 and had formal art training prior to being a manga artist. After the discontinuation of COM in 1973 she started working for Garo. Her work Aa Sekensama was published in the February 1971 issue of Garo for which she won Big Comic Award in 1972. Frederik L. Schodt regarded her work as particularly important because of the feminist message in her works. Yamada also influenced Hinako Sugiurahttps://anilist.co/staff/101746 and Youko Kondouhttps://anilist.co/staff/130020/YoukoKondou her former assistants. Her works are described as being pictorial novels. She taught at Kyoto Seika Universitys Faculty of Manga. She once ran for a seat in Japans House of Councillors as part of the Chikyuu Club political organization in 1989.