is a Japanese manga artist and author of long-running shōjo manga Glass Mask. Life She was born in Nishinomiya, Japan and grew up in Osaka. She lived nearby a rental bookstore (kashi-hon) in her childhood and started drawing manga herself, when she had too many unpaid bills at a rental bookstore and her mother forbid her to continue reading manga. Miuchi made her professional debut as a manga artist in 1967, aged only 16, with the manga Yama no Tsuki to Kodanuki in the shōjo magazine Margaret. Her early debut as a highschool-aged manga artist inspired Yukari Ichijo to start a professional career as a manga artist at the time. She became famous for publishing short stories in the early 1970s, among them also horror manga. Her 1975 short story Shiroi Kagebōshi is considered a classic of shōjo horror manga. Her biggest success came in 1976, when she began the long-running and ongoing series Glass Mask (Glass no Kamen) about a girl becoming a famous theater actress. The manga has been adapated into a stage play, a live-action TV series and an anime series. She won the Kodansha Manga Award (1982) for Youkihi-den and the Japan Cartoonists Association Award (1995) for Glass Mask. Works Series Moeru Niji (燃える虹), 1970 13-gatsu no Higeki (13月の悲劇), 1971 Amaranth no Joō (アマランスの女王), 1972 Harukanaru Kaze to Hikari (はるかなる風と光), 1973–1974 Kujaku-iro no Kanaria (孔雀色のカナリア), 1973–1974 Shira-yuri no Kishi (白ゆりの騎士), 1974–1975 Glass Mask (ガラスの仮面, Garasu no Kamen), since 1976, serialized in Hana to Yume and Bessatsu Hana to Yume Saint Alice Teikoku (聖アリス帝国, Sei-Arisu Teikoku), 1976–1978 Bara Monogatari (バラ物語), 1979 Yōkihi-den (妖鬼妃伝), 1981 Dynamite Milk Pie (ダイナマイト・みるく・パイ, Dainamaito Miruku Pai), 1982 Amaterasu (アマテラス), 1986–1995 One-shots Yama no Tsuki to Kodanuki to (山の月とこだぬきと), 1967 Shiroi Kagebōshi (白い影法師), 1975, published in Mimi Dynamite Milkpie Futari no Melody Kaerazaru Hyuuga Majou Medea Niji no Ikusa Oujo Alexandra Pollyana's Knight Shiroi Kageboshi References External links Miuchi's homepage Women manga artists Japanese female comics artists Female comics writers Japanese women writers Winner of Kodansha Manga Award (Shōjo) People from Osaka 1951 births Living people Manga artists from Osaka Prefecture