YAMADA Murasaki

Life with cats is full of wonders. A collection of "cat story" gems that will touch your heart. Cat cartoons by Murasaki Yamada, a mangaka who pioneered a new manga expression but who passed away suddenly. Featuring works from her collection that illustrate a feline world of poetic sentiment, melancholic yet warm. A delicate depiction of everyday life with cats. Included Stories: ふえたりへったりこうして猫が 鈍たちとやま猫 子供の制服 猫の不思議話 招く猫

A collection of short stories by Murasaki Yamada that gently embraces women who are struggling as mothers, as women, and sometimes with life choices. Asphalt Mizuumi (アスファルト湖) Hirogaru Sumai (拡がる住まい) and 4. Arashi (嵐) Hana wo Sarau (花をさらう) Glass Tama (ガラス玉) Chisana Iede (小さな家出) Umi to Ojisan (海とおじさん) Houseki (宝石) Mado (窓) Kamisama (神様) Itsumo Iru (いつも居る)

Part of the Manga Japan Classic series.

A dream of being hit by a high wave. I had no choice but to run home before I was swept away... When my daughter was three years old, I took her to an apartment where a friend from her school days lived. My daughter had some free time, so she went outside to play and ended up getting locked in the elevator. Now she is 12 years old, and she talks about the dream she had at that time. She said she had a dream of being hit by a high wave in the elevator. And then...

Blue Sky tells the story of a single mother in her thirties who runs a bar, trying to find a new love after a disastrous marriage with the father of her two children.

Yuri Morita and her husband Hiro have moved into a new apartment block with a south-facing veranda. It's not new, but it's bigger than their old flat, and the neighbours are very kind. Above all, the veranda is perfect for drying futons and a nice place for children to play. Here, the couple starts their new life together. However, when Hiro casually says "Let's have a child", the words break Yuri's heart.

The fluctuations of an adolescent girl's heart, the turmoil of her mother, and what she gained and lost while raising her child. A genial look into family life of a parent and her child.

In the end, we’re all the same…we just want to be smothered like babies against another human’s beating heart. Through a cracked door, heartsick Emi hears a playful growl. Cautiously, she lets her lover in—a wolf of a man wielding a bouquet of roses. His shoulders must have been four inches wider than mine. As I stood behind him, I fantasized about the broadness of his chest and the thickness of his neck…and about becoming his mistress once again. And so their story goes. For a young woman interested in love without the hassle of a traditional relationship, an affair with someone else’s spoiled husband is just what she ordered—until it’s time to move on. Then there’s Yuko: with even less time for married men’s shenanigans, she turns her attention to her aging father and the guilt of adultery that has gnawed at his heart for years. Her mother is long dead, yet her memory is enshrined for eternity in their—both father’s and daughter’s—mirrored indiscretions. (source: Drawn & Quarterly)

A massive, 1200 page anthology gathering one-shots from every Garo mangaka up until 1984.

What are child, marriage, family, the desire of a young couple after marriage, for baby to be born? What are the mutual thoughts on relationship after marriage? To draw the conflicts lightly and so forth. A masterpiece collection of 12 stories that gently spells out the thoughts that spring up in your life!

A celebrated masterwork shimmering with vulnerability from one of alt-manga's most important female artists. "Now that we've woken from the dream, what are we going to do?" Chiharu thinks to herself, rubbing her husband's head affectionately. Set in an apartment complex on the outskirts of Tokyo, Murasaki Yamada's Talk to My Back (1981-84) explores the fraying of Japan's suburban middle-class dreams through a woman's relationship with her two daughters as they mature and assert their independence, and with her husband, who works late and sees his wife as little more than a domestic servant. (Source: Drawn & Quarterly)

The mean cats, angry, sulking, contemplative, sinking into solitude, are her alter egos, aware of her bad nature. However, there is a distance between the feelings she is entrusted with and the cats that are entrusted to her, and the monologues of the two resonate together, creating a tranquil, poetic world. There is a line in "Sakura ni Kaze": "When you think, 'I will be kind, and will not lose my kindness,' you feel lonely. When you wonder who my efforts to be kind have helped... you feel covered in wounds." A world of sharp sensitivity and poetry that entrusts the delicate emotions of an independent woman to the supple posture of a cat. The masterpieces of the author, who passed away suddenly, are revived. Included are "Exit," "Naughty Cat," "Fleeting Cat in Boots," and "Time Soldier." One work not included in the book and a newly discovered precious cat illustration are included for the first time!