[1][2][3] Since her debut, Yamato steadily created and published a variety of works in the genre of shōjo manga.
[1] Among her early time works, Mon Cherie CoCo, 1971, was adapted into an anime television series, and her work, Haikara-san ga Tōru, 1975 to 1977, was very successful, winning the 1st Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo manga in 1977.
[3][4] It was also made into a musical for the Takarazuka Revue, an anime series (which reached an international audience through TV broadcasts in Italy and France), and a live-action film.
Yamato spent 13 years (1980–93) completing this famous long work, based on Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji.
Yamato's story manga Haikara-san ga Tōru series had been sold over 10 million copies.