is a Japanese manga artist best known for her cat manga ''

Chi's Sweet Home is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kanata Konami. It was serialized in Kodansha's Seinen, ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Morning'' from 2004 to 2015, with its chapters collected in twelve ''tankōbon'' volumes. The ...

''. Her first manga was published in the magazine

Nakayoshi is a monthly ''shōjo'' manga magazine published by Kodansha in Japan. First issued in December 1954, it is a long-running magazine with over 60 years of manga publication history. Notable titles serialized in Nakayoshi include ''Princess Knight ...

in 1982. Both ''

'' and have been published in English by

Vertical Inc Vertical is a Japanese novel and manga imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing. Founded in 2001 by Hiroki Sakai, in February 2011, the company was bought by Kodansha (46.7%) and Dai Nippon Printing (46.0%). The company was consolidated into Kodansha ...

. Manga artist

Risa Itō , also romanized as Risa Itou, is a Japanese manga artist. She was born in 1969 in Hara Town, Suwa District in Nagano Prefecture, the eldest of three sisters. She graduated from Suwa Futaba High School and studied ''Formative Fine Arts'' at Jo ...

and Kanata are from the same small town and Kanata's father was Itō's homeroom teacher in elementary school.

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* 1958 births Living people Manga artists from Nagano Prefecture {{manga-artist-stub