Ryoko Yamagishi

Ryoko Yamagishi (山岸 凉子, Yamagishi Ryōko, born 1947 in Hokkaidō) is a female Japanese manga artist. She is one of the Year 24 Group. Her major works include Hi Izuru Tokoro no Tenshi and Terpsichora, both of which have won manga awards.

Biography

Yamagishi studied ballet as a child, which plays a part in many of her works. When she read the manga of Machiko Satonaka in 1964, she decided to pursue becoming a manga artist. Although her parents did not agree with this, in 1966 she entered a competition in Shōjo Friend and was a semi-finalist. She applied to Kodansha and sent some short stories to COM. In 1968, after completing her art studies in Hokkaido, she moved to Tokyo and applied for Shuiesha. The next year, she made her debut with "left< And >right " レフトアンドライト, a short story which ran in Ribon.

In 1971, she released the manga series Shiroi Heya no Futari and is the story of a romance between two girls at a prestigious all-girls school in France. It was first published by Shueisha in Ribon, and was regarded as one of the earliest shōjo yuri manga,