Fuyumi Ono (小野 不由美, Ono Fuyumi, born December 24, 1960) is a Japanese
novelist best known for writing The Twelve Kingdoms (十二国記, Jūni Kokuki), which was adapted into a popular
anime series. She is married to
Yukito Ayatsuji, the author of the horror novel Another.[1]
Biography
Ono is married to Naoyuki Uchida (内田 直行, Uchida Naoyuki), a mystery novelist who writes under the
pseudonymYukito Ayatsuji (綾辻 行人, Ayatsuji Yukito).[1]
Her name after marriage to AYATSUJI Yukito, is UCHIDA Fuyumi, but she writes under her maiden name,[2] which is Ono Fuyumi.
Before she started work on The Twelve Kingdoms, Fuyumi Ono wrote The Demonic Child (魔性の子, Mashō no Ko), a horror novel about a boy from another world. She later worked certain events from this novel into the Twelve Kingdoms series. Short stories set in the various kingdoms include: Kasho (華胥), Toei (冬栄), Shokan (書簡), Kizan (帰山) and Jogetsu (乗月). In February, 2008, a new Twelve Kingdoms short story, "Hisho no Tori" (丕緒の鳥) was published in
Shinchosha's Yomyom magazine.[3]
On March 18, 2007, according to an interview at the Anime News Network,[4] she is "currently rewriting a girls’ horror series (she) wrote long ago".
Major works
Akuryo Series (1989–92, 8 light novel volumes, Kodansha)
Ghost Hunt (also known as Nightmare Dwelling) (1994, 2 light novel volumes, Kodansha)[5] – continuation of Akuryo Series but in a different setting
The Twelve Kingdoms (1992–2019, 9 novels and 2 short story collections, Kodansha, later Shinchosha)
Sea of the Wind, Shore of the Labyrinth (風の海 迷宮の岸), 1993.
ISBN4-06-255114-4 US Publication: 3/2008, Tokyopop
ISBN978-1-59816-947-8 as The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Wind
Sea God of the East, Vast Sea of the West (東の海神 西の滄海), 1994.
ISBN4-06-255168-3 US Publication: 3/2009, Tokyopop
ISBN978-1-59816-948-5 as The Twelve Kingdoms: The Vast Spread of the Seas
A Thousand Miles of Wind, the Sky of Dawn (風の万里 黎明の空), 1994.
ISBN4-06-255175-6 US Publication: 3/2010, Tokyopop
ISBN978-1-59816-949-2 as The Twelve Kingdoms: Skies of Dawn
Ghost Stories Storybook (鬼談百景). Serialized since June 2000 in the magazine Yuu. published in 2012
Short story
London, 1888 (倫敦、1888) 10/1993 Logout
References
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abTakahashi, Yukari.
インタビュー 綾辻行人 [Interview - Yukito Ayatsuji] (in Japanese). Edit. Archived from
the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved June 2, 2015.