Nao Yazawa(谷沢 直Yazawa Nao, born on July 29) is a Japanese manga artist born in Tokyo, Japan, though she is currently a resident of Kanagawa Prefecture. She is most well known for her manga series Wedding Peach which was made into an anime series of the same name. Digital Manga will be doing a run of her current manga entitled Mizuki, in May 2010. Yazawa-sensei also has an 11 volume manga entitled Shinku-Chitai which was running in the monthly magazine Manga Power, in Germany until they shut down. In addition, the manga is self published in Japan.