Hinako Sugiura, 1958-2005

Hinako Sugiura, a cartoonist who later became a popular author of books on the Edo Period and a talk-show celebrity, passed away on July 22 in a hospital in Kashiwa, Chiba, of complications due to throat cancer. She was 46 years old.

Born to a family of kimono makers and later a student of the cultural historian Shisei Inagaki, Sugiura made her comics debut in 1980 with the short story "Tsugen Muro No Ume" in the magazine Garo. According to her entry at Lambiek.net, Sugiura was known for occasionally working in the ukyo-e woodcut style. She won the Japan Cartoonists Association Award in 1984 for her comic short story, "Gassou" and received the Bunshun Manga Award in 1988. Her work was featured in the groundbreaking English-language survey on manga, Dreamland Japan. In 1993 she retired and began a second career as a well-known essay writer and speaker on her historical period of choice.
 
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