Hisae Iwaoka is a Japanese

Japanese people

The are an ethnic group originating in the Japanese archipelago and are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries...

 manga artist.

Her work includes the one-shot manga Hana Boro (Flower Cookies) and Shiroi Kumo (White Clouds) (a jury-recommended work in the 2005 Japan Media Arts Festival

Japan Media Arts Festival

The Japan Media Arts Festival is an annual festival held by Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs since 1997. The festival for a nominal year was usually held during February or March next year, rather than at the end of the nominal year. For instance, the 2010 Japan Media Arts Festival, where...

) Yume no Soko, (a jury-recommended work in the 2006 Japan Media Arts Festival) Hoshigahara Aomanjuu no Mori, (a jury-recommended work in the 2010 Japan Media Arts Festival) as well as the ongoing series Saturn Apartments

Saturn Apartments

is a 7 volume manga series written and illusrated by Hisae Iwaoka. Saturn Apartments has been seralised in the Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Ikki from 2005 to 2011.It has been collected into 7 tankōbon volumes.Viz Media licensed the manga series for English-language publication in North...

, published by Ikki Comics and licensed in English by Viz Media.

Some of her work was included in the 2004 Takashi Murakami

Takashi Murakami

is an internationally prolific contemporary Japanese artist. He works in fine arts media—such as painting and sculpture—as well as what is conventionally considered commercial media —fashion, merchandise, and animation— and is known for blurring the line between high and low art...

 exhibition "Tokyo Girls Bravo" at the Marianne Boesky Gallery, where her artwork was compared to that of A. A. Milne

A. A. Milne

Alan Alexander Milne was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work.-Biography:A. A...

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External links

• moimoi (official website)