Machiko Satonaka

Machiko Satonaka (里中 満智子, Satonaka Machiko, born 24 January 1948) is a Japanese manga artist. She made her professional debut in 1964 during her second year of high school with the one-shot Pia no Shōzō ("Portrait of Pia"). She has since created nearly 500 manga in a variety of genres. Two of her most notable works are Ashita Kagayaku ("Tomorrow Will Shine"), which won the 1974 Kodansha Publishing Culture Award, and Karyūdo no Seiza ("Constellation of the Hunter"), which won the 1982 Kodansha Manga Award. In addition to creating manga, Satonaka teaches at the Osaka University of Arts as the head of the Character Creative Arts Department and serves on the board of various manga-related organizations in Japan.

Machiko Satonaka
里中 満智子
Satonaka at the 2008 International Manga Summit Festa in Kyoto
Born (1948-01-24) 24 January 1948
Osaka, Japan
NationalityJapanese
Area(s)Manga artist
Notable works
  • Ashita Kagayaku
  • Ariesu no Otometachi
  • Karyūdo no Seiza
  • Tenjō no Niji
AwardsSee below

Early life

Machiko Satonaka was born on 24 January 1948 in Osaka, Japan.[1] As a child, her elementary school banned students from reading manga such as Astro Boy because of its violent and unscientific content; her teachers even burned manga in front of her class. Satonaka—who admired the works of Osamu Tezuka, Shotaro Ishinomori, Tetsuya Chiba, and Hideko Mizuno—was filled with a desire to "protect manga" and to "contribute to raising its status" in society by becoming an artist herself.[2]

Career

In 1964, during her second year of high school, Satonaka made her professional debut with the one-shot Pia no Shōzō ("Portrait of Pia"), published in Kodansha's Shōjo Friend magazine; for this, she received the inaugural Kodansha New Faces Award.[1] The editorial staff of Shōjo Friend subsequently advertised Satonaka as "a genius girl".[3] She dropped out of school against her parents' wishes and moved to Tokyo to pursue her career.[4]

As of 2019, Satonaka has created nearly 500 manga for both shōjo (young girls) and josei (adult women) in a variety of genres, including romantic comedies, fantasy epics, and historical dramas.[5][6] Her longest-running manga, Tenjō no Niji ("Celestial Rainbow"), depicts the life of the Japanese Empress Jitō and was serialized for more than 30 years.[7] Two of her works—a short story collection titled Machiko's One Thousand and One Nights and an anthology of Biblical tales titled The Old Testament—are available in English on the digital manga website Manga Reborn.[8][9][10] Masami Toku, a scholar and professor of art education at California State University, Chico, described Satonaka as an artist who "consistently protested against a stereotypical male view of women, which often demanded that they remain young and immature, and instead wholeheartedly affirmed women's growth and maturity."[11]

In addition to creating manga, Satonaka serves as the head of the Osaka University of Arts Character Creative Arts Department;[12] the director of the Japan Cartoonists Association;[13] the director of the Manga Japan foundation;[14] the chairperson of the Digital Manga Association;[15] a representative of the NPO Asia Manga Summit Administering Authority;[16] and a member of the Cabinet Secretariat of Japan Intellectual Property Strategy Headquarters.[1]

Selected works
  • Pia no Shōzō (ピアの肖像, "Portrait of Pia"), 1964[17]
  • Nana to Riri (ナナとリリ, "Nana and Lili"), 1967[18]
  • Watashi no Jonī (わたしのジョニー, "My Johnny"), 1968[19]
  • RaRa Hāto (ララ・ハート, "LaLa Heart"), 1968–1969[20][21]
  • Redī An (レディー・アン, "Lady Ann"), 1969–1970[22][23]
  • Ashita Kagayaku (あした輝く, "Tomorrow Will Shine"), 1972–1973[24]
  • Hime ga Iku! (姫が行く！, "There Goes the Princess!"), 1973–1974[25]
  • Ariesu no Otometachi (アリエスの乙女たち, "Ladies of Aries"), 1973–1975[26]
  • Asunaro Zaka (あすなろ坂, "Cypress Hill"), 1977–1980[27]
  • Umi no Ōrora (海のオーロラ, lit. "Aurora of the Ocean"), 1978–1980[28]
  • Karyūdo no Seiza (狩人の星座, "Constellation of the Hunter"), 1979–1981[29]
  • Tenjō no Niji (天上の虹, "Celestial Rainbow"), 1983–2015[7]
  • Tsurukame Warutsu (鶴亀ワルツ, "Crane Turtle Waltz"), 1996–1997[30]

Translated into English
  • Machiko's One Thousand and One Nights (まちこの千夜一夜, Machiko no Senya Ichiya), published by Shoeisha in 1995;[31] translated for the digital manga website Manga Reborn in 2013[32]
  • The Old Testament (マンガ旧約聖書, Manga Kyūyaku Seisho), published by Chuokoron-Shinsha in 2011;[33] translated for the digital manga website Manga Reborn in 2014[34]

Awards

References
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  2. Toku (2015), pp. 176–178.
  3. Toku (2015), p. 177.
  4. "Special HERO: The Interview – Ms. Satonaka Machiko (Second Part)". Entertainment Future Lab. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  5. "Mitsubishi Asian Children's Enikki Festa (2019–2020): The 14th Jury: Member of the Committee: Machiko Satonaka (Manga Artist)". Mitsubishi Asian Children's Enikki Festa Official Website. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  6. 里中満智子. Kotobank (in Japanese). The Asahi Shimbun Company. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  7. 里中満智子のライフワーク「天上の虹」が30年越しで完結、本日最終23巻発売. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). 13 March 2015. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  8. Crystalyn, Hodgkins (13 June 2013). "New Manga Reborn Website Launches to Offer Digital Manga in English". Anime News Network. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  9. Bolanos, Reina (26 October 2013). "Manga Reborn's Kickstarter Adds Machiko Satonaka's The Old Testament Manga". Anime News Network. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
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  11. Toku (2015), p. 176.
  12. 教員紹介：キャラクター造形学科：学科案内：大阪芸術大学. Osaka University of Arts Official Website (in Japanese). Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  13. 里中満智子. Japan Cartoonists Association Official Website (in Japanese). Retrieved 30 December 2019.
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  16. Iishi, Eiji (6 February 2018). 福岡）来年、北九州市でアジア漫画サミット開催へ. Asahi Shimbun Digital (in Japanese). Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  17. くだん書房：目録：マンガ：雑誌：講談社：週刊少女フレンド1964年. Kudan Shobō (in Japanese). Retrieved 7 January 2020. Text: 「『週刊少女フレンド 』1964年8月30日（36）– 里中満智子『ピアの肖像』（デビュー作）」 Translation: "Weekly Shōjo Friend, 30 August 1964 (36) – Machiko Satonaka's Pia no Shōzō (Debut Work)"
  18. くだん書房：目録：マンガ：雑誌：講談社：週刊少女フレンド1967年. Kudan Shobō (in Japanese). Retrieved 30 December 2019. Nana to Riri premiered in Weekly Shōjo Friend's 2 May 1967 (No. 18) issue and concluded in its 21 November 1967 (No. 47) issue, per the magazine's table-of-contents recorded by the vintage shōjo manga bookstore Kudan Shobō.
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  20. くだん書房：目録：マンガ：雑誌：講談社：週刊少女フレンド1968年. Kudan Shobō (in Japanese). Retrieved 30 December 2019. Text: 「『週刊少女フレンド 』1968年8月13日（33）– 里中満智子『ララ・ハート』（新連載）」 Translation: "Weekly Shōjo Friend, 13 August 1968 (33) – Machiko Satonaka's LaLa Heart (New Series)"
  21. くだん書房：目録：マンガ：雑誌：講談社：週刊少女フレンド1969年. Kudan Shobō (in Japanese). Retrieved 30 December 2019. Text: 「『週刊少女フレンド』1969年5月27日号（22）– 里中満智子『LaLa・ハート』（最終回）」 Translation: "Weekly Shōjo Friend, 27 May 1969 (22) – Machiko Satonaka's LaLa Heart (Final Chapter)"
  22. くだん書房：目録：マンガ：雑誌：講談社：週刊少女フレンド1969年. Kudan Shobō (in Japanese). Retrieved 30 December 2019. Text: 「『週刊少女フレンド』1969年12月16日号（51）– 里中満智子『レディー・アン』（新連載）」 Translation: "Weekly Shōjo Friend, 16 December 1969 Issue (51) – Machiko Satonaka's Lady Ann (New Series)"
  23. くだん書房：目録：マンガ：雑誌：講談社：週刊少女フレンド1970年. Kudan Shobō (in Japanese). Retrieved 30 December 2019. Text: 「『週刊少女フレンド』1970年12月8日号（50）– 里中満智子『レディー・アン』（最終回）」 Translation: "Weekly Shōjo Friend, 8 December 1970 Issue (50) – Machiko Satonaka's Lady Ann (Final Chapter)"
  24. あした輝く. Kotobank (in Japanese). The Asahi Shimbun Company. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  25. 姫が行く！. Kotobank (in Japanese). The Asahi Shimbun Company. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  26. アリエスの乙女たち. Kotobank (in Japanese). The Asahi Shimbun Company. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  27. あすなろ坂. Kotobank (in Japanese). The Asahi Shimbun Company. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  28. 海のオーロラ. Kotobank (in Japanese). The Asahi Shimbun Company. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  29. 狩人の星座. Kotobank (in Japanese). The Asahi Shimbun Company. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  30. 鶴亀ワルツ. Kotobank (in Japanese). The Asahi Shimbun Company. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
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  33. マンガ旧約聖書. Media Arts Database (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
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Works cited
  • Toku, Masami, ed. (2015). "Profile and Interview with Machiko Satonaka". International Perspectives on Shojo and Shojo Manga: The Influence of Girl Culture. New York: Routledge. pp. 175–181. ISBN 978-1-138-54903-6.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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