What is Nahoko Uehashi?
Nahoko Uehashi is a Japanese writer of [[Children's literature|children’s literature]] and a cultural anthropologist about the Australian native people, [[Indigenous Australians|Aborigines]]. Now she teaches cultural [[anthropology]] in Kawamura Gakuen Woman’s University. == Simple Biology == In 1962 she was born in [[Tokyo]]. She loved reading books and [[manga]]. When she was a high school student she wanted to be a cartooner. However she thought that she was not good at drawing and gave up being it. After graduating from her high school, she enrolled at Rikkyo University and studied cultural anthropology. She majored in it and studied female repellent. She went to [[Okinawa]] for field work and was advised to try to do it in a place where the spoken language is different. She chose [[Australia]] as the place and researched about Yamatji which is one of the tribes of [[Indigenous Australians|Aborigines]]. She has studied about them until now and taught about cultural anthropology in Kawamura Gakuen Woman’s University Her [[career]] as a writer started in 1989. She published her first work “Seirei-no-Ki (Spirit Tree)”. From that year she has written many stories until today. == Fictional Works == === Shika-no-Oh series ([[King]] of the [[Deer]]<nowiki/>s) === Van, a man who was the top of the “Dokkaku (a kind of [[army]])” , Yuna, a young [[girl]] who was saved by Van and Hossal, a doctor, had fought with the mysterious sickness named “Mizzal (black-wolf fever)”. === Kemono-no-Soja series (The Beast Player) === Erin, an [[orphan]] girl met with a sacred young [[animal]] and grew with it experiencing various things, meeting with a lot of people and learning about what the creatures are. === Koteki-no-Kanata (Beyond the Fox Whistle) === A twelve-year-old girl, Sayo, saved a young [[fox]]. He was actually a fox [[spirit]] living in the gap which is between the real and [[god]]<nowiki/>s’ world. The two got involved in the fight for [[territory]] but they grew their love by trying to solve the problems. ==