Artist
SATONAKA Machiko
Artist
Part of events on ArtRabbit in: Osaka
SATONAKA was born in Osaka Prefecture in 1948. In her second year of high school, she won the 1st Kodansha New Faces Award with "Portrait of Pia" and later became a professional manga artist. Many of her works deal with history. She completed "Celestial Rainbow," which features Empress Jito as the main character, after 32 years. Her representative works include ""Tomorrow Will Shine," "Ladies of Aries," "Aurora of the Ocean," "Cypress Hill," "Constellation of the Hunter," and “Kojiki: Manga Koten Bungaku.” In 2006, she was awarded the Japanese Ministry of Culture and Science Achievement Certificate for Lifetime Works and Cultural Activities. She has won many other awards, such as the Commendation of the Commissioner of the Agency for Cultural Affairs (2010), the Kojiki Publishing Grand Prize's Ono Yasumaro Award for “Kojiki: Manga Koten Bungaku” (2013), and the Japanese Foreign Minister's Commendation (2014). In addition to being a manga artist, she is also involved in a range of activities related to popularizing manga and culture. These include being a professor at Osaka University of Arts, being the director of the Japan Cartoonists Association, and the representative of the NPO Asian Manga Summit Administering Authority Japan."
Exhibitions and Events
2021