Kaze no Daichi
Kaze no Daichi is a Japanese golf-themed manga series written by and illustrated by. It was serialized in Shogakukan's the manga magazine Big Comic Original from 1990 to 2022, with its chapters collected in 84 volumes as of August 2022.
In 1994, the manga won the 39th Shogakukan Manga Award in the general category.
Plot
The series focuses on Keisuke Okita, who takes up golf at the age of 24 and through talent, hard work, and good coaching quickly turns pro. After a good performance in Asian professional golf tours, he enters the British Open, where he falls in love with his caddy, Lily. He later participates other major golf tournaments, including the Masters Tournament.Characters
;Keisuke Okita;Masayuki Ugajin
;Takashi kasazaki
Publication
Written by and illustrated by, Kaze no Daichi started in Shogakukan's manga magazineBig Comic Original in 1990. Shogakukan has collected its chapters into individual volumes. The first volume was released on March 30, 1991. As of August 30, 2022, eighty-four volumes have been released. The latest chapter was published on May 20, 2022, and the series was put on hiatus; Kazama died of pancreatic cancer at 75 on October 2 of that same year. Kazama's last chapter was posthumously published in Big Comic Original on December 5, 2022. Sakata died at 76 on July 22, 2024.