is a Japanese '' shōjo'' and '' josei''

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. She made her debut as a professional manga artist in 1968 with ''Yuki no Serenade''. In 1986 she received the

Kodansha Manga Award is one of Japan's major manga awards. The event is sponsored by publisher Kodansha. It has been awarded annually for serialized manga in its third iteration since 1977. Categories The award was originally called the until 1968. In 1970, it was ...

for shōjo for ''

Yūkan Club is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Yukari Ichijo. It is serialized in Shueisha's ''Bessatsu Margaret''. ''Yūkan Club'' received the 1986 Kodansha Manga Award for the shōjo category. The manga was adapted into an original vid ...

'', and in 2007, she received an Excellence Prize in

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at the

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for ''

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''. Several of her series have been dramatized, including ''Yūkan Club'' as an

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and ''Designer'' and ''Tadashii Ren'ai no Susume'' as high-rated live-action television dramas. A live-action film based on her work ''Pride'' was released in 2009. Yoshimi Uchida worked for her as an assistant in the 1970s.

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Profile at The Ultimate Manga Guide
1949 births Living people Japanese female comics artists Manga artists from Okayama Prefecture Winner of Kodansha Manga Award (Shōjo) Women manga artists {{manga-artist-stub