Kazumi Yamashita(山下和美Yamashita Kazumi, born 15 August 1959 in Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan) is a Japanese manga artist. Although she writes primarily older shōjo manga, she is best known for The Life of Genius Professor Yanagizawa, which was published in the seinen magazine Morning, and for which she received the 2003 Kodansha Manga Award for general manga.