is a Japanese manga artist. She made her professional debut in 1958 with . Her series Crest of the Royal Family, which received the 1991 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo, has been continuously serialized in Princess since 1976. Her series Akogare was adapted into a TV drama series, titled Hanayomeishō wa Dare ga Kiru (花嫁衣裳は誰が着る), in 1986. Another series, Attention Please, was adapted from a 1970 TV drama series produced for Japan Airlines. A newer version of the TV drama was produced in 2006. Works Akogare (5 volumes) Attention Please (2 volumes) Cinderella no Mori (3 volumes) Crest of the Royal Family (67 volumes) Hakushaku Reijō (12 volumes) Kuroi Bishō (4 volumes) Maboroshi no Hanayome (1 volume) Nakuna Parikko Sources: References External links 20th-century Japanese women writers 21st-century Japanese women writers 1935 births Japanese female comics artists Female comics writers Living people Women manga artists Manga artists from Osaka Prefecture