Yukari Ichijo (一条ゆかり, Ichijō Yukari, born 19 September 1949 in Okayama Prefecture, Japan) 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,[1] and in 2007, she received an Excellence Prize in manga at the Japan Media Arts Festival for Pride.
[2] 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.
[3] A live-action film based on her work Pride was released in 2009.