Yōko Kondō (born 1957) is a Japanese manga artist from Niigata City. She made her debut while attending university and has worked across a wide range of forms, from ensemble dramas about everyday life to historical and fantastic stories informed by her knowledge of folklore and medieval Japanese literature, as well as manga adaptations of works by writers such as Ango Sakaguchi and Natsume Sōseki. She received an Excellence Award from the Japan Cartoonists Association for “Miharashigaoka nite” and the Grand Prize in the Manga Division of the 18th Japan Media Arts Festival for “Goshiki no Fune,” based on a story by Yasumi Tsuhara. Her representative work, “Iemori Kitan,” adapts Kaho Nashiki’s novel and was nominated for the Manga Grand Prize at the 30th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize. Set in the Meiji era, it follows writer Seishirō Watanuki as he looks after the house of a deceased friend and encounters an amorous crape myrtle, a kappa, a shape-shifting raccoon dog, and the friend who should no longer be alive.
