Waki Yamato (?? ??, Yamato Waki, born March 13, 1948, in Sapporo) is a Japanese manga artist.
She debuted in 1966 with the short story Dorobou Tenshi.Since her debut, Yamato steadily created and published a variety of works in the genre of shojo manga.
Among her early time works, Mon Cherie CoCo, 1971, was adapted into an anime television series, and her work, Haikara-san ga Toru, 1975 to 1977, was very successful, winning the 1st Kodansha Manga Award for shojo in 1977.
It was also made into a musical for the Takarazuka Revue, an anime series (which reached an international audience through TV broadcasts in Italy and France), and a live-action movie.
Through these early works, she established her position as one of the most popular manga artists.