born April 8, is a Japanese

manga artist A is a comic artist who writes and/or illustrates manga. As of 2006, about 3,000 professional manga artists were working in Japan. Most manga artists study at an art college or manga school or take on an apprenticeship with another artist be ...

and illustrator from

Nagano Prefecture is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Nagano Prefecture has a population of 2,052,493 () and has a geographic area of . Nagano Prefecture borders Niigata Prefecture to the north, Gunma Prefecture to the ...

. She illustrates

yaoi ''Yaoi'' (; ja, やおい ), also known by the ''wasei-eigo'' construction and its abbreviation , is a genre of fictional media originating in Japan that features Homoeroticism, homoerotic relationships between male characters. It is typi ...

light novels and manga. She chose Temari as her pen name since the town she is from,

Matsumoto Matsumoto (松本 or 松元, "base of the pine tree") may refer to: Places * Matsumoto, Nagano (松本市), a city ** Matsumoto Airport, an airport southwest of Matsumoto, Nagano * Matsumoto, Kagoshima (松元町), a former town now part of the c ...

, is known for making temari.

Works

Manga

* , one volume, 2003 * (Story by Barugo Hotaka), one volume, 2003 * , one volume, 2004 * , two volumes, 2004 * , one volume, 2004 * , one volume, 2005 * (Story by Tomo Takabayashi) 16 volumes (ongoing) 2005 * 2011

Illustrations

Kyo Kara Maoh! is a series of Japanese light novels written by Tomo Takabayashi and illustrated by Temari Matsumoto. The story follows the adventures of Yuri Shibuya, an average 15-year-old Japanese high school student, who is suddenly transported to a ...

series(Story by Tomo Takabayashi) * (Story by Tatsuki Shindou) *　(Story by Satomi Kikawa) *

References

External links

Temari Web
Manga artists from Nagano Prefecture Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Women manga artists Japanese female comics artists Japanese illustrators Japanese women illustrators Female comics writers Japanese women writers Japanese writers People from Matsumoto, Nagano {{manga-artist-stub