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Informationen zum Autor Taeko Watanabe debuted as a manga artist in 1979 with her story Waka-chan no Netsuai Jidai (Love Struck Days of Waka). Kaze Hikaru is her longest-running series, but she has created a number of other popular series. Watanabe is a two-time winner of the prestigious Shogakukan Manga Award in the girls’ category—her manga Hajime-chan go Ichiban! (Hajime-chan Is Number One!) claimed the award in 1991, and Kaze Hikaru took it in 2003. Watanabe read hundreds of historical sources to create Kaze Hikaru. She is from Tokyo. Klappentext "Kondo, disillusioned by the weakened state of the shogunate, returns from Hiroshima in despair. Upon his return, he moves in with his mistress, Miyuki. Hijikata is on high alert, and he observes the couple very closely intere Miyuki's motives, and why is she staying with Kondo?"--Back cover. Zusammenfassung In the 1860s in Japan, a new era is dawning. During thistime fraught with violent social upheaval, samurai of all walks of life flock toKyoto in the hope of joining a band of warriors united around their undyingloyalty to the shogunate system. This group becames one of the greatest (andmost infamous) movements in Japanese history...the Shinsengumi!
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Taeko Watanabe debuted as a manga artist in 1979 with her story
Waka-chan no Netsuai Jidai (Love Struck Days of Waka).
Kaze Hikaru is her longest-running series, but she has created a number of other popular series. Watanabe is a two-time winner of the prestigious Shogakukan Manga Award in the girls’ category—her manga
Hajime-chan go Ichiban! (Hajime-chan Is Number One!) claimed the award in 1991, and
Kaze Hikaru took it in 2003.
Watanabe read hundreds of historical sources to create
Kaze Hikaru. She is from Tokyo.
