manga series · Japan

1993 to 1996

Created by
Hisashi Sakaguchi

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Cover of Akanbē Ikkyū

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Akanbē Ikkyū.

あっかんべェ一休

Ikkyū (Japanese: あっかんべェ一休, Hepburn: Akkanbe Ikkyū; lit. 'Taunting Ikkyū') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hisashi Sakaguchi, based on the life of the 14th century Zen monk Ikkyū. It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon from May 1993 to November 1995, left unfinished when Sakaguchi died from acute heart failure at the age of 49. The manga posthumously received the Japan Cartoonists Association Award in 1996.

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Type
manga series
Country
Japan
Published
1993 to 1996
Publisher
Kodansha, Glénat Éditions
Appeared in
Afternoon
Language
Japanese

Run

In print
The story

Akanbē Ikkyū, in three panels

  1. 1993. Akanbē Ikkyū begins in Japan.

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    Cover of Akanbē Ikkyū
  2. Also by Hisashi Sakaguchi

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