Career
She made her debut in 1968 with Paula"s Tears in Weekly Margaret. She is credited with popularizing the kemonomimi (catgirl) character type through her creation of Chibi-neko from The Star of Cottonland.
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She made her debut in 1968 with Paula"s Tears in Weekly Margaret. She is credited with popularizing the kemonomimi (catgirl) character type through her creation of Chibi-neko from The Star of Cottonland.
She received the 1973 Japan Cartoonists Association Award for excellence for Mimoza Yakata de Tsukamaete. She received the 1978 Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo for The Star of Cottonland, and the 2008 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Short Story Award for "Cher Gou-Gou..mon petit chat, mon petit ami," a short story in the ongoing series Gū-gū datte Neko de aru.
