About Fuyumi Ono:
Fuyumi Ono is a Japanese novelist best known for writing The Twelve Kingdoms (????, J?ni Kokuki?) series, on which a popular anime is based. Her married name is Fuyumi Uchida (?? ???, Uchida Fuyumi?), but she writes under her maiden name. She is married to Yukito Ayatsuji, the author of the horror novel Another.