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Place of Birth: Takatsuki, Ōsaka Prefecture, Japan
About Yasuko Sakata
- Yasuko Sakata ?? ?? is a manga artist who belongs to the Post Year 24 Group.
- She was born on 25 February 1953 in Osaka, Japan.
- She now lives in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture.
- Her official debut was with the work Saikon Kyousou Kyoku ?????, published in Hana to Yume in 1975.
- In the late 1970s and early 1980s, she was involved in the yaoi dojinshi movement, having co-coined the term "yaoi" with Akiko Hatsu.
- One of Sakata's dojinshi, Loveri, was amongst the very first to be described as "yaoi".
- Her best known works are Jikan wo Warerani, Basil Shi no Yuuga na Seikatsu (The Elegant Life of Mr Basil), about a 19th-century British aristocrat, and Yamiyo no Hon.
- She won the Agency for Cultural Affairs Media Arts Festival Grand Prize in the Manga Division in 1997.
- Most of her work is short stories - as of 2003, one catalogue listed over 40 of her stories.
- The type of stories she tells include traditional Japanese ghost stories, science fiction, mysteries, and Western and Chinese stories.
- She is marked for her talent at "casually portraying" everyday life.
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