Yumiko Kawahara

Yumiko Kawahara (川原 由美子, Kawahara Yumiko, born 20 February 1960 in Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan) is a Japanese shōjo manga artist. She made her professional debut in 1978 with Kotchi muite Marie!! in the weekly Shōjo Comic, for which she won a Shogakukan New Artist Award. In 1986, she received the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo for Zenryaku: Milk House (前略・ミルクハウス). She is best known in the United States as the author of Dolls, which was licensed by Viz Media.