Yumi Tamura

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Yumi Tamura is a Japanese manga artist. Her debut short story, Oretachi no Zettai Jikan (オレたちの絶対時間), was published in 1983 in Bessatsu Shoujo Comic and received the 1983 Shogakukan Grand Prize for new artists.

She made her reputation with the long-running shoujo action/adventure series Basara, for which she won the 1993 Shogakukan Manga Award for shoujo manga. Her series 7SEEDS won a second Shogakukan Manga Award for shoujo manga in 2003.