"In those days everything was opening up. Freedom was in the air...

I wanted to explore and write about love without boundaries, love in different kinds of shapes and forms, whether it was between man, woman, child or an old person,' Ms Takemiya says.

Until the early 1970s, popular manga for girls in Japan was mainly about ordinary teenagers finding boyfriends, the trials and tribulations of everyday life.

It was a time when a heterosexual kiss between consenting adults in manga was considered racy.

Anything more intimate was simply hands held on bed sheets, flickering candles. Burgeoning sexuality was a teenager turning beet red when her hands touched the boy of her dreams.

Ms Takemiya was one of a pioneering group of female artists who made manga a genre many consider now worthy of literary criticism,

heavily influenced by Western authors like Herman Hesse, Bram Stoker, Dumas and Dostoyevsky, drawing on their perennial themes of love, hate, life and death."

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