Toshie Kihara

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She is a Japanese mangaka and is associated with the year 24 group. She made her professional debut in 1969 with "Kotchi muite Mama!" in Bessatsu Margaret, and has since written mainly historical manga. She is best known for her series "Mari to Shingo" (published in Hana to Yume from 1979–1984) about a romance between two young men in the early Showa era.

She received the 1985 Shogakukan Manga Award for shoujo for Yume no Ishibumi, a multi-volume collection of short stories with shounen-ai themes.