17 Facts About Miyako Maki

Miyako Maki is a Japanese manga artist, and one of the earliest female manga artists.

Miyako Maki later became a pioneer in manga for adults, producing gekiga and redikomi towards the end of that decade.

Miyako Maki is the widow of manga artist Leiji Matsumoto, with whom she has collaborated with on multiple works.

Miyako Maki created Licca-chan, a popular Japanese doll manufactured by Takara.

Works by Miyako Maki have been awarded the Japan Cartoonists Association Award, the Montreal International Comic Contest prize, and the Shogakukan Manga Award.

Miyako Maki was born July 29,1935, in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture.

Miyako Maki presented it to the director of Tokodo, the publisher of Osamu Tezuka's works.

Miyako Maki then created her second manga, Haha Koi Warutsu, which was accepted for publication.

Miyako Maki moved to Tokyo and began work for major publishers such as Kodansha, Kobunsha and Shogakukan.

Miyako Maki was among the first waves of artists to embrace sutairu-ga, starting with her manga Shojo Sannin that was published in August 1958.

Miyako Maki became acquainted with multiple manga artists in Tokyo, including Tezuka, Leiji Matsumoto and Tetsuya Chiba.

Miyako Maki married Matsumoto in 1961, and they began to collaborate on manga together.

The success of Miyako Maki's characters caught the attention of the toy maker, Takara.

Miyako Maki's interests evolved over time, and she began to abandon romantic stories aimed at young girls to write manga with realistic narratives aimed at an adult female audience.

In 1968, magazines dedicated to a male audience of young adults approached Miyako Maki and asked her to create manga for them.

Miyako Maki sent a sheet of the story The Narcissus with Red Lips from her gekiga Seiza no onna and won first prize of the competition, becoming the first manga to be internationally awarded.

Miyako Maki won the Japan Cartoonists Association Award for Excellence in 1974 for Himon no onna.