Yamamura Animation, Inc.

BOOK | Jp
New Release || Selected Sole-Authored Books || Fruits Friends' Fresh Talk Series | Miyazawa Kenji | Non-fiction | Wordplay | Nonsense | Fantasy || Illustrated Book | Tsukumo-san Series |
Complete Works || Author | Picture Book: Co-author | Magazine | Writing |
Authors || Arthur Binard | Dino Buzzati-Traverso | Inudo Isshin | Inui Eriko | Ishizu Chihiro | Hasse Mitsuko | Kanda Sumiko | Kisaka Ryo | Miyazawa Kenji | Nakagawa Hirotaka | Nejime Shoichi | Satoshin | Tomiyasu Yoko | Uchida Rintaro |
Translation || Taiwan | China | Korea | Vietnam | Russia | France |

New Release

My Inner Ear Quartet

Text: Ogawa Yoko, Illustration: Yamamura Koji
Kodansha Ltd.
1st edition: 2026.10.29

The Worst Day

Text: Satoshin, Illustration: Yamamura Koji
Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha, Ltd.
1st edition: April 7, 2026.04.07

Selected Sole-Authored Books

Parade

Text & Illustration: Yamamura Koji
Kodansha
2015.09.24

Bells are Ring

Text and Illustration: Yamamura Koji
Bunkeido
2018.04

Ikuta no Kita

Text & Illustration: Yamamura Koji
Yamamura Animation
2023.03.11

Animation Nature

Understanding Contemporary Animations from Concept and Design
Author: Koji Yamamura, Illustration: Yamamura Koji
Film Art, Inc.
2025.12.19

Fruits Friends' Fresh Talk Series

Fruits Friends' Fresh Talk

Text: Ishizu Chihiro, Illustration: Yamamura Koji
Fukuinkan Shoten Publishers
2006.06.15

Viva Vegetables !

Text: Ishizu Chihiro, Illustration: Yamamura Koji
Fukuinkan Shoten Publishers
2010.06.10

4th place: MOE Children's Picture Book Store Award

Athletes of Sweets

Text: Ishizu Chihiro, Illustration: Yamamura Koji
Fukuinkan Shoten Publishers

Fantastic Kitchen Circus

Text: Ishizu Chihiro, Illustration: Yamamura Koji
Fukuinkan Shoten Publishers
2022.10.10

Miyazawa Kenji

Text: Miyazawa Kenji, English Translation: Arthur Binard, Illustration: Yamamura Koji
Ima-Jin sha
2015.11.03
Orion Shobo Picture Book Grand Prix December 2013, This month's Eh-ha! Picture Book of the Month

Yamanashi / Mountain Stream

Text: Miyazawa Kenji, English Translation: Arthur Binard, Illustration: Yamamura Koji
Ima-Jin sha
2022.04.08

Chief of Police Who Likes to Poisonous Fishing

Text: Miyazawa Kenji, Illustration: Yamamura Koji
miki house
2022.10

Non-fiction

A Witch's Day

Secrets to Becoming a Witch
Written by Iijima Toyoko, Illustrated by Yamamura Koji
Kinnohoshisha
2023.09

Exploring the Polar Night

Takusan no Fushigi February 2020 issue
Text: Kakuhata Yusuke, Illusratiom: Yamamura Koji
Fukuinkan Shoten Publishers
2020.02.01

What's That Cloud?

Text: Tomiyasu Yoko, Illustration: Yamamura Koji
Fukuinkan Shoten Publishers
2018.05.05

I'm a Daphnia.

Text: Sato Madoka, Illustration: Yamamura Koji
Froebel-kan
2018.06

Wordplay

Horse is Running

Text: Uchida Rintaro, Illustration: Yamamura Koji
2018.04

Knead with Cats

Text: Hayashi Kirin, Illustration and Constitution: Yamamura Koji
BL Publisher
2015.01.20

Nn

Kodansha's Original Picture Book
Text: Nagata Hiroshi, Illustration: Yamamura Koji
Kodansha
2013.09.20

Nonsense

Komatta Komatta

Text: Fushimi Misao, Illustration: Yamamura Koji
Alice Kan
2024.08.08

Peek-A Zou

Text: Otsuka Kenta, Illustration: Yamamura Koji
Iwasaki Shoten
2024.04.17

Saigyo Tsutsumigadaki

Kodan-Ehon series
Supervisor: Kanda Matsuojo, Illustration: Yamamura Koji
Kodansha
2019.11.26

Mr. Wolf, What Time Is It?

Text: Nakagawa Hirotaka, llustration: Yamamura Koji
Gakken
2019.05.28

For the Sake of Mr. Whale, We'll Do Whatever It Takes

Text: Uchida Rintaro, Illustration: Yamamura Koji
Suzuki Publishing
2015.10.10
Nippon Ehon Prize

Long is Beautiful

Text: Satoshin, Illustration: Yamamura Koji
PHP Interface
2014.05.18
White Ravens

Really !?

Text: Satoshin, Illustration: Yamamura Koji
Bunkeido
2014.10

Fantasy

Cleaning of the Bath, Goldfish Corps

Written by Tominaga Mai, Illustrated by Yamamura Koji
Sekaibunka Holdings
2023.07.15

The White Hare of Inaba - Onamuji and Yagamihime

Nixon no shinwa Kojiki Ehon Vol.4
Supervisor: Miura Yusuke, Text: Ogiwara Noriko, Illustration: Yamamura Koji
2016.11.30

My Grandma is Kickboxer

Text: Nejime Shoichi, Illustration: Yamamura Koji
Kumon Publisher
2016.04.27

Tiny, Giant Tree

Text: Yumemakura Baku, Illustration: Yamamura Koji
Shogakukan
2015.07.22
Shogakukan Award for Children's Literature

Boiled Egg Princess

Text: Kanda Sumiko, Illustration: Yamamura Koji
Kyouikugageki
2011.10.30

Boiled Egg Princess and Meatballs Thieves

Text: Kanda Sumiko, Illustration: Yamamura Koji
Kyouikugageki
2014.11.01

The Lost Groves

Tokusen Kodomo no Tomo Library 2018, January issue
The public conpetition text as 60th anniversary of founding Fukuinkan Shoten publishers
Text: Etsuko Ohara, Illustration: Yamamura Koji
Fukuinkan Shoten Publishers
2019.01.01

Illustrated Book

Fushigi Soushi

Written by Tomiyasu Yoko, illustrated by Yamamura Koji
Shogakukan
2023.04.19

The Seven Sneezes

Text: Olga Cabra, Translation: Komiya Yu, Illustration: Yamamura Koji
Iwanami Shoten
2021.07.28

Illustrated Tale "Kojiki"

Text: Tomiyasu Yoko, Illustration: Yamamura Koji, Superviser: Miura Hiroyuki
Kaishe-sha
2017.11.20
White Ravens

Sow Bug, Dangoro

Ohanashi no Kuni
Text: Mio Chizuru, Illustration: Yamamura Koji
Suzuki Publishing
2014.05.30