[1] He was mainly active as a four panel comic artist, though he has made a series of short stories too.
In 2006 won the 35th Japan Cartoonists Association Award Grand prize of 500,000 yen for Red Snow.
The main character is a young boy or early teenager without any sexual experiences yet, growing up with older women.
Most stories feature promiscuous behavior, adultery, domestic violence, prostitution, rape in a setting of the countryside suffering from the poor economic situations like was the post WWII situation in Japan.
After the Japanese publication the French publisher Éditions Cornélius started working on a translation, but Katsumata never saw the result.