Tamura Yumi

Yumi Tamura is a Japanese manga artist. Her debut short story, Ore-tachi no Zettai Jikan ("This is the Time for Us"), was published in 1983 in Bessatsu Shoujo Comic and received the 1983 Shogakukan Grand Prize for new artists.

She made her reputation with the long-running shoujo action/adventure series Basara, for which she won the 1993 Shogakukan Manga Award for shoujo manga. Her latest series, 7SEEDS, for which she won a second Shogakukan Manga Award for shoujo manga in 2003.