Yumiko Kawahara (川原 由美子, Kawahara Yumiko, born April 20, 1960) is a Japanese shōjo manga artist born in Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan. She made her professional debut in 1978 with Kotchi muite Marie!! in the weekly Shōjo Comic, for which she won a Shogakukan New Artist Award. In 1985, she received the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo for Zenryaku Milk House (前略・ミルクハウス).[1] She is best known in the United States as the author of Dolls, which was licensed by Viz Media.