Beginning her career in 1979 in the alternative manga magazine Garo, she is known for her historical and folklore-inspired works as well as for adaptations of classic Japanese literature.
[2] Together with other female artists who worked for erotic magazines for men such as Kyoko Okazaki, Erica Sakurazawa and Shungicu Uchida, she is sometimes referred to as "onna no ko H mangaka" ("women H cartoonists").
[7][8][9] After this, she shifted towards adaptations of classic Japanese literature, among them works of Shinobu Orikuchi, Natsume Sōseki and Ango Sakaguchi.
[10][11] Her early work for Garo received scholarly attention for bringing female perspectives into alternative manga.
This masterpiece, praised unanimously by its readers for its beauty in staunchly portraying the cruelty concealed in the world while at the same time providing the humor and courage to live, compels us to give something back.
"[14] Her manga Sensō to Hitori no Onna, based on a novel by Ango Sakaguchi, was among the jury-selected works of Japan Media Arts Festival 2013.