is 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 ...

. In 1984, he won the

Kodansha Manga Award is an annual award for serialized manga published in the previous year, the event is sponsored by the publisher Kodansha. It is currently awarded in three categories: '' shōnen'', '' shōjo'', and general. The awards began in 1977, initially w ...

for shōnen for ''

Bats & Terry is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yasuichi Oshima. It was serialized in Kodansha's ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' from 1982 to 1987. ''Batsu & Terī'' received the 1984 Kodansha Manga Award for the shōnen category. Kodansh ...

''. He is the father of manga artist

Towa Oshima Towa may refer to: Japanese municipalities *Tōwa, Fukushima, town in Fukushima Prefecture *Tōwa, Iwate, town in Iwate Prefecture *Towa, Kōchi, village in Kōchi Prefecture *Tōwa, Yamaguchi, former town in Yamaguchi Prefecture *Tōwa, Miyagi, ...

Selected works

* ''

Kenkaku Shōbai { is a series of popular historical novels written by Shōtarō Ikenami and one of the representative novels of Ikenami along with ''Onihei Hankachō'' and ''Shikakenin Fujieda Baian''. The stories were originally serialized in the Shōsetsu Shin ...

'' (2008–2021)

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