Sakuya Amano is a Japanese manga artist known for creating the original work behind the anime and manga series Konohana Kitan. Born on September 9 in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, and later residing in Kyoto Prefecture, Amano is a female creator whose professional career began in the early 2000s. She previously used the pen name Sakuya Amano written with different kanji (天乃咲耶) before settling on her current signature.

Amano made her debut as a manga author with the series Genpishin (現神姫), which was published in multiple volumes. She gained wider recognition as the illustrator for the manga adaptation of Gosick, a popular light novel series by author Kazuki Sakuraba. The Gosick manga was serialized between 2007 and 2012, establishing Amano as a capable artist for licensed adaptations. During this period, she also created other original works including Otogiyakakan (御伽楼館) and Doubt!.

The work that would become her signature series, Konohana Kitan, has a notable publication history. It first began in 2009 under the title Konohana-tei Kitan (此花亭奇譚) in Ichijinsha's Comic Yuri Hime S magazine. The series went on hiatus in 2010, but Amano relaunched it in 2014 with a new title, Konohana Kitan (このはな綺譚), in Gentosha's Monthly Birz magazine (formerly Comic Birz). This revival proved successful, and the manga continued serialization for years, with multiple collected volumes published by Gentosha.

The franchise achieved broader visibility when a twelve-episode anime television adaptation of Konohana Kitan was produced by the studio Lerche. It aired in Japan from October to December 2017. The English-language version of the manga was licensed by Tokyopop, which began releasing volumes in 2018 as part of the company's return to publishing translated Japanese manga. In a small cameo appearance, Amano herself voiced a character, identified as a literary expert (文豪さん), in the sixth and twelfth episodes of the anime.

Amano is strongly associated with the yuri genre, which focuses on romantic or intimate relationships between female characters. Her works, particularly Konohana Kitan, blend this genre with fantasy and slice-of-life elements. The series is set in a hot spring inn staffed by fox-eared girls and is known for its gentle, healing atmosphere and themes of hospitality toward guests who are treated as divine beings. Beyond her serialized work, she has contributed short stories to several yuri anthologies, including Eclair, Cinnamon, and Yuri Drill.

While Konohana Kitan remains her most prominent creation, Sakuya Amano has maintained a consistent career as a manga artist for over two decades, working across original properties and adaptations while remaining active in the yuri and fantasy genres.