{"title":"Machiko Kyo","description":"\u003cp\u003eMachiko Kyo (今日マチ子) is a manga artist and illustrator born in Tokyo. She studied in the first intake of the Department of Inter-Media Art at Tokyo University of the Arts and at Setsu Mode Seminar. In 2004 she began posting \u003cem\u003eSennen Gahou\u003c\/em\u003e, a one-page manga, on her blog; it was selected for the inaugural Hobonichi Manga Award in 2005 and jury-recommended at the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2006 and 2007.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKyo's manga pair a soft, poetic line with subjects from school life to war. \u003cem\u003ecocoon\u003c\/em\u003e (Akita Shoten, 2010), which follows schoolgirls during the Battle of Okinawa, was staged by mum \u0026amp; gypsy in 2013, published in French as \u003cem\u003eCocon\u003c\/em\u003e (IMHO, 2023) and in English by Viz Media (2026), and adapted as an animated film by Studio Sasayuri, broadcast by NHK in 2025. The short \u003cem\u003ePigtails\u003c\/em\u003e (Production I.G), based on her \u003cem\u003eMitsuami no Kamisama\u003c\/em\u003e, won a Platinum Remi Award at WorldFest-Houston in 2016. Kyo received the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize New Creator Prize in 2014 and the Japan Cartoonists Association Award Grand Prize (cartoon division) in 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the pandemic Kyo posted a drawing a day under the hashtag #stayhome, collected in three volumes by rn press; the last, \u003cem\u003eFrom Tokyo\u003c\/em\u003e, was launched with a show at 9DAYS GALLERY in Shibuya, Tokyo, in 2023. Machiko Kyo's work is presented in Europe by Tokiol.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSelected exhibitions\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e2024 \u003cem\u003eWatashi no #stayhome Nikki: Ise Houmonki\u003c\/em\u003e, Geku Sando Gallery, Ise\u003cbr\u003e2023 \u003cem\u003eFrom Tokyo\u003c\/em\u003e, 9DAYS GALLERY, Shibuya Modi, Tokyo\u003cbr\u003e2023 \u003cem\u003eWatashi no #stayhome Nikki 2020–2023\u003c\/em\u003e, Machida City Museum of Literature, Tokyo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003ePublications\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCocon\u003c\/em\u003e, IMHO, 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eMitsuami no Kamisama\u003c\/em\u003e, Shueisha, 2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ecocoon\u003c\/em\u003e, Akita Shoten, 2010\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/tokiol.io\/collections\/machiko-kyo.oembed","provider":"TOKIOL","version":"1.0","type":"link"}