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Yuki Urushibara

Yuki Urushibara is a Japanese manga artist. She is best known for the series Mushishi, for which she received an Excellence Prize for manga at the 2003 Japan Media Arts Festival and the 2006 Kodansha Manga Award for general manga. She is also known by the pen name Soyogo Shima.

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Yuki Urushibara

Born
23 January 1974
Birthplace
Yamaguchi, Japan
Nationality
Japanese
Awards
Kodansha Manga Award (2006)
Occupation
mangaka · comics artist
Known for
Mushishi

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Yuki Urushibara is a Japanese manga artist. She is best known for the series Mushishi, for which she received an Excellence Prize for manga at the 2003 Japan Media Arts Festival and the 2006 Kodansha Manga Award for general manga. She is also known by the pen name Soyogo Shima.

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