Inko Ai Takita

Inko Ai Takita, also known just as Inko, is UK based Japanese manga artist / illustrator. Her visual works often imply cross overs of modern & traditional Eastern and Western cultures, which comes from her studies undergraduate and master at Kyoto Zokei university of Art & Design in Japan (gained scholarship on the second year) , and BA Central Saint Martin’s College of Art & Design in UK before she kicks off her career as a manga & comic artist in 2009. She has been working with: Guardian Children’s book, British Museum, V&A, British Library, TFL, Sony Entertainment Japan. A comic anthology Portrait of Violence (New International, also available on amazon) she took part as a main artist has won The 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards medal. She joined as an illustrator for an interactive web-theatre Flight Paths, and it was awarded the P.K. Walker Innovation in Craft Award from Superfest Disability Film Festival 2021 A manga adoptation of Robert Burn's dark poem Tam O'Shanter (Cranachan) is published in 2019, and available on amazon too. Manga Yokai Stories: Ghostly tales from Japan is just released by Tuttle in Sep 2020, and sold worldwide. Yokai Trail exhibition, a part of House of Setting Sun exhibition at Blackwell the Arts & Crafts centre is open from July – October 2021. Learn Clip Studio Paint (Packt) will be published September 2021. Her manga adaptation of the first Japanese novel from 1st century Tale of Genji (Tuttle) will be released April 2022. Website: http://dokoteiinko.wix.com/inkoredible Instagram:@inko_dokotei