Yukari Ichijo

Yukari Ichijo is a Japanese shōjo and josei manga artist.
She made her debut as a professional manga artist in 1968 with Yuki no Serenade. In 1986 she received the Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo for Yūkan Club, and in 2007, she received an Excellence Prize in manga at the Japan Media Arts Festival for Pride. Several of her series have been dramatized, including Yūkan Club as an anime OVA 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.

Selected works

Suna no Shiro is a manga series serialized in Ribon between July 1977 through July 1979 and September 1980 through November 1981. A TV adaptation was created as an afternoon series by Tōkai Television and Fuji and aired from July 30, 1997, through October 3, 1997.