She is one of the Year 24 Group, a collection of female artists who innovated shōjo (girls') manga throughout the 1970s.
In 1968, after completing her art studies in Hokkaido, she moved to Tokyo and applied for Shueisha.
[3] In 1971, she released the one-shot manga Shiroi Heya no Futari, which tells the story of a romance between two students at an all-girls boarding school in France.
It was published by Shueisha in Ribon Comic and is regarded as the first yuri (female-female romance) manga.
[5] Her works normally have occult themes, although her most popular are Arabesque, about Russian ballet, and Hi Izuru Tokoro no Tenshi.