was a Japanese manga artist born in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto, Japan. He is best known for his 1990 debut manga , for which he won the 1992 Kodansha Manga Award for general manga and the 1998 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Award for Excellence. Takahiro Kochi was his assistant.

Adaptations

His novel ''Tōgenkyō no hito-bito'' was adapted into the 2002 Japanese comedy film ''

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