was a Japanese

manga artist A is a comic artist who writes and/or illustrates manga. As of 2006, about 3,000 professional manga artists were working in Japan. Most manga artists study at an art college or manga school or take on an apprenticeship with another artist be ...

. He started drawing the ''Taberemasen'' ("not fit for consumption") yonkoma cartoon in 1995 in the

Kodansha is a Japanese privately-held publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Kodansha is the largest Japanese publishing company, and it produces the manga magazines ''Nakayoshi'', ''Afternoon'', ''Evening'', ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' an ...

-published '' Young Magazine'' while still in high school, and continued the series until 2013. Besides publishing in ''Young Magazine'', he also published social satire cartoons in the weekly magazine '' Friday''. He died on October 22, 2013, from liver failure.

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