Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox comics creator Template:Nihongo is a Japanese shōjo and josei manga artist.
She made her debut as a professional manga artist in 1968 with Yuki no Serenade. In 1986 she received the Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo for Yūkan Club,[1] and in 2007, she received an Excellence Prize in manga at the Japan Media Arts Festival for Pride.[2] Several of her series have been dramatized, including Yūkan Club as an anime OVA and Designer and Tadashii Ren'ai no Susume as high-rated live-action television dramas.[3] A live-action film based on her work Pride was released in 2009.
Yoshimi Uchida worked for her as an assistant in the 1970s.[4]