夜叉御前 ―自選作品集

by Ryōko Yamagishi, 山岸凉子

山深い一軒家で起こる怪奇を描く表題作ほか、ギリシャ神話が現代の暗闇の奥底によみがえる恐怖譚「キルケー」など、傑作を集める。
《収録作品》「時じくの香の木の実」「キルケー」「鬼来迎」「笛吹き童子」「海底より」「夜叉御前」

263 pages, Paperback

First published March 10, 1994

About the author

Ryōko Yamagishi (山岸凉子) is a Japanese manga author.
Born in Hokkaido prefecture, she is part of the Year 24 Group together with Moto Hagio, Yumiko Ōshima and Keiko Takemiya.

She debuted in 1969 with Left and right (Jap: レフトアンドライト).
Starting from 1971 she gathered attention with the ballet manga Arabesque (Jap: アラベスク), and from 1980 with Hi izuru no tokoro no tenshi (Jap: 日出処の天子), that also won the 7th Kodansha manga award.
Her 1971 work Shiroi heya no futari is regarded as the first yuri manga.
Her 1977 work Yōsei-ō (Jap: 妖精王) was animated in 1988.
In 2000 she started the serialization of Maihime Terpsichora (Jap: 舞姫 テレプシコーラ) that in 2007 won the Gran Prize at the 11th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.