Kimiko Uehara

nihongo|Kimiko Uehara|上原きみこ|Uehara Kimiko|born Murakami Kimiko on 1946-04-25 in Gifu, Japan is a prominent Japanese shōjo and josei manga artist. She is best known for shōjo series such as "Maiko no Uta" ("Maiko's Poem"), "Lovely Mari-chan", "Marybell", "Honoo no Romance", "Lolly no Seishun", and "Yumedokei" ("Sweet Memory"). She received the 1990 Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga for "Lovely Mari-chan".cite web | url=http://comics.shogakukan.co.jp/mangasho/rist.html | title=小学館漫画賞：歴代受賞者 | publisher=Shogakukan | language=Japanese | accessdate=2007-08-19] Uehara is cited by Naoko Takeuchi, author of "Sailor Moon", as an influence, especially her dialog in "Lolly no Seishun" and "Honoo no Romance". [cite web | url=http://web.archive.org/web/20020806163722/http://www.routevenus.com/nagareboshihe/information/manga/naoko.html | title=nagareboshiHE >> information >> manga >> naoko |accessdate=2007-05-28]

Her current manga is "Inochi no Utsuwa", published by Akita Shoten since 1991 in the josei magazine "For Mrs." and collected in 43 tankobon volumes as of January 2008.

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* [http://www.gem.hi-ho.ne.jp/remy/etude.htm Etude] - fan site ja icon
* [http://users.skynet.be/mangaguide/au1993.html Profile] in The Ultimate Manga Guide