Yuka Murayama (born 1964) is a Japanese novelist. After graduating from the Faculty of Literature at Rikkyo University and working in several company positions, she made her literary debut by winning the Shosetsu Subaru New Writers’ Award for "Tenshi no Tamago: Enjerusu Eggu" in 1993. Through stories about romance, sexuality, and family relationships, she portrays people divided between their desires and social expectations, as well as women attempting to regain control of their own lives. Her best-known work, "Hoshiboshi no Fune," received the Naoki Prize in 2003. The six linked stories present a single family from the perspectives of its different members: a brother and sister unable to suppress their feelings for each other, a younger sister involved with a married man, an eldest brother who feels displaced both at work and at home, and a father burdened by memories of war. Each carries a past or desire that cannot be disclosed to the others while continuing to share the same family “vessel.”