Murasaki Yamada, born as Mitsuko Yamada, was a Japanese manga artist, feminist essayist and poet.
17 Facts About Murasaki Yamada
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Murasaki Yamada was associated with the alternative manga magazine Garo.
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Murasaki Yamada lived with her grandparents while her mother and sister lived separately; they all lived in Taishido.
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Murasaki Yamada married one of them in October 1971, and the two moved to a danchi apartment in Takashimadaira.
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Murasaki Yamada used the pen name "Murasaki Neko" for her poetry work, and later incorporated "Murasaki" into her standard pen name.
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Additionally, Yamada's daughter, Yu Yamada, stated that Yamada liked the color of purple dyes from lithospermum erythrorhizon, known as "murasaki".
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Murasaki Yamada had a preference for cats, which appears in her works.
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Murasaki Yamada made her debut as a professional manga artist in 1969 in Osamu Tezuka's avantgarde magazine COM and had formal art training before becoming a manga artist.
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Murasaki Yamada returned to Garo in 1978 and started publishing essays, illustrations and poetry in literary magazines.
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Murasaki Yamada separated from her first husband in 1981, and he moved out of her residence.
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Murasaki Yamada ran for a seat in the 1989 Japanese House of Councillors election as part of the Chikyu Club political organization.
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Murasaki Yamada married Chikao Shiratori, and was last legally known as Mitsuko Shiratori.
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Murasaki Yamada moved into her residence around 1985 to 1986.
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Murasaki Yamada was 17 years older than he was, and she modeled a boyfriend character in Blue Sky after him.
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Murasaki Yamada died at Kyoto Hospital on May 5,2009, age 60, due to intracerebral hemorrhage.
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Murasaki Yamada's works are described as being pictorial I Novels.
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Murasaki Yamada influenced Hinako Sugiura and Yoko Kondo, her former assistants.