Tae Sano is a Japanese manga artist known for creating the four-panel comic strip series Morita-san wa Mukuchi, which was adapted into an anime television series and original video animations. Sano was born on March 24, 1975, in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, where she continues to reside. She is female, married, and has one child. Her pen name combines her family name with "Tae," a handle she previously used online.

Sano made her professional debut in 2006 with the four-panel manga Anata to Futari, which was published as a special feature in Houbunsha's Manga Time Family magazine. She initially began serializing the manga Fuwari Sisters in the same magazine, which was later renamed Smile Suītsu and ran until 2010. Her work is primarily published by major manga houses including Houbunsha, Takeshobo, and Futabasha, and she specializes in the yonkoma, or four-panel, comic strip format.

Sano is best known as the creator of Morita-san wa Mukuchi, a comedy slice-of-life manga that follows Mayu Morita, a high school girl who is so thoughtful and gentle that she rarely speaks. The series began serialization in Takeshobo's Manga Life magazine in March 2007, later moving to Manga Life Momo and Manga Club. The first collected tankōbon volume was published in January 2009, and as of 2022, over twenty volumes have been released. The manga has been licensed for an English-language release on the JManga platform.

The success of Morita-san wa Mukuchi led to multiple anime adaptations. An original video animation produced by Studio Gram was bundled with the limited edition of the third manga volume on February 26, 2011, followed by an extended version released independently on March 25, 2011. A television anime series, animated by Studio Seven, aired on KBS Kyoto and TV Saitama from July 6 to December 26, 2011, spanning 26 episodes. For these productions, Sano is credited as the original creator. Her other manga works include Smile Suītsu, Shimashima Nikki, Murudoru, and Urito Tsume.

Sano's protagonists are typically young girls or women in their twenties, and her artwork is noted for depicting characters with highly expressive facial features. A stylistic hallmark of her work is the sparing use of exclamation marks, often using shortened kana at the end of sentences instead. Beyond her manga series, she has contributed illustrations to children's novels serialized in the Asahi Shogakusei Shimbun and has participated in various official manga anthologies, including those for Non Non Biyori and Recorder and Randsell.