A 1950s shojo manga I bought online from a Japanese auction site, a relic of the era of kashihon, inexpensive rental libraries through which many manga books were distributed in impoverished, post-war Japan..  “Hoshizora ni uta e ba (If You Sing to the Starry Sky”) by Masai Akiyosha. Here are select pages, and my  non-Japanese-reading commentary/ guesses at what’s going on.  First, the cover and page one of the story.
The cover appears to be by a different artist than the interior.  Perhaps å‹å±±ã²ã‚ã— – KATSUYAMA Hiroshi?
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