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Hinako Ashihara (芦原 妃名子 Ashihara Hinako born January 15 in Hyogo Japan) is a female Japanese manga artist. She wrote the manga Sand Chronicles Forbidden Dance SOS Ten-nen Bitter Chocolate Homemade Home and Chouchou Kumo (Butterfly Cloud). Ashihara won the 50th Shogakukan Manga Award for her manga Sand Chronicles as well as the 58th Shogakukan Manga Award for Piece – Kanojo no Kioku.