, pen name was a Japanese manga artist.
He wrote many works that has been turned into anime, TV drama, and movie but is especially known for Anmitsuhime (ãÂÂãÂÂã¿ã¤姫) which was turned into all three. His second best known work, Tentenmusume (ã¦ãÂÂã¦ãÂÂå¨Â), was made into a movie on 1956 with Mariko Miyagi as the heroine and on 1984, it was made into a TV drama with Mayumi Hara in the same role.