is a Japanese manga artist best known for her cat manga ''

Chi's Sweet Home is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Konami Kanata. It was serialized in Kodansha's manga magazine ''Morning'' from 2004 to 2015, with its chapters collected in twelve volumes. The manga has been licensed for North ...

''. Her first manga was published in the magazine

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in 1982. Both ''

'' and have been published in English by

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. Manga artist

Risa Itō , also romanized as Risa Itou, is a Japanese manga artist. She was born in 1969 in Hara Town, Suwa District in Nagano Prefecture, the eldest of three sisters. She graduated from Suwa Futaba High School and studied ''Formative Fine Arts'' at ...

and Kanata are from the same small town and Kanata's father was Itō's homeroom teacher in elementary school. Kanata has a blood type of O.

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* 1958 births Living people Manga artists from Nagano Prefecture {{manga-artist-stub