Toshiko Ueda | |
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上田 トシコ | |
 Ueda c. 1956 | |
| Born | August 14, 1917 Tokyo City, Empire of Japan |
| Died | March 7, 2008 (aged 90) Tokyo, Japan |
| Occupation | Manga artist |
| Years active | 1937–2008 |
| Notable work | Fuichin-san |
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Toshiko Ueda[a] (Japanese: 上田 トシコ, Hepburn: Ueda Toshiko, August 14, 1917 – March 7, 2008) was a Japanese manga artist. After apprenticing under the manga artist Katsuji Matsumoto at the age of seventeen, Ueda published her first manga in 1937. Like her mentor, she drew mainly humorous manga, both in shōjo (girls) magazines and in the general press. She is, along with Machiko Hasegawa, one of the few female manga artists to begin their careers in the pre-war period.
Born in the Empire of Japan, Ueda split her youth and early adulthood between Japan and Manchuria; her most popular manga series Fuichin-san, serialized in the magazine Shōjo Club from 1957 to 1962, follows the life of a Chinese girl living in Manchuria. Ueda's time in Manchuria, from her idyllic childhood to the arrest and execution of her father during Japanese repatriation, was a significant influence on her manga. She was still actively publishing her manga series Ako-Bāchan (1973–2008) at the time of her death at the age of 90.
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