![]() ![]() The short story is set in Tsuki-jō shrine. In 1993, Igarashi won the newcomer award Afternoon Shiki Shō ("Afternoon Seasons Prize") of the manga magazine Afternoon with the short story "Ohayashi ga kikoeru hi" ("A Day Festival Music Is Heard") and its publication in the February 1994 issue of Afternoon was his debut as a professional manga artist. After graduating, he travelled through Japan and sketched landscapes that he saw. He was classmates with fellow manga artist Hiroaki Samura, but the two of them only properly met later while working for the same manga magazine. He graduated from Tama Art University, where he studied oil painting from 1989 on. He started drawing, because he wanted to depict the beauty of these trees. ![]() ![]() As a child, he would often spend time in a grove of Tsuki-jō in Saitama, consisting of trees that were several hundreds of years old. Igarashi was born in Saitama in the suburbs of Tokyo. Manga series like Witches and Children of the Sea have been critically acclaimed and translated into several languages. Active since the 1990s, he is known for his detailed depictions of nature in combination with spiritual or surreal themes. ![]() Daisuke Igarashi ( 五十嵐 大介, Igarashi Daisuke, born April 2, 1969) is a Japanese manga artist. ![]()
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