Kare Kano (Japanese: 彼氏彼女の事情, Hepburn: Kareshi Kanojo no Jijō, lit. "His and Her Circumstances") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by...

was first attested in literature in its written furigana-glossed form as kanozyo (彼（かの）女（じよ）) in the 1885 novel Tousei Syosei Katagi (當世書生気質) by Tsubouchi...