Motoka Murakami
Born June 3, 1951, in Setagaya, Tokyo is a Japanese manga artist. He won the Kodansha Manga Award for manga for Gakuto Retsuden 1982 and the Shogakukan Manga Award twice, for manga for Musashi no Ken in 1984 and for general manga in 1996 for Ron, serialized in Big Comic Original from 1991 to 2006. In 1998, he received an Excellence Prize at the Japan Media Arts Festival for Ron.
Motoka Murakami
- Born
- 1951 · Setagaya.
- Nationality
- Japan
- Occupation
- mangaka · comics artist
- Known for
- Akai Pegasus · Musashi no Ken · Ryū - Ron · Jin
- Languages
- Japanese
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Born June 3, 1951, in Setagaya, Tokyo is a Japanese manga artist. He won the Kodansha Manga Award for manga for Gakuto Retsuden 1982 and the Shogakukan Manga Award twice, for manga for Musashi no Ken in 1984 and for general manga in 1996 for Ron, serialized in Big Comic Original from 1991 to 2006. In 1998, he received an Excellence Prize at the Japan Media Arts Festival for Ron.
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Motoka Murakami (born 1951) is a Japanese comics artist and mangaka. The comics artist was born in Setagaya. Motoka Murakami worked for Kyoto Seika University.
Works include Akai Pegasus, Jin, Musashi no Ken and Ryū - Ron. Languages used include Japanese.
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Jin won the Grand Prize at the 2011 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize. On a list published in the beginning of August 2011, he ranked as the 35th best-selling manga artist since January 2010, with 1,901,000 copies sold.
• Musashi no Ken • Jin
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1951
Motoka Murakami was born in 1951 at Setagaya.
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- 1.Joel Hahn. Kodansha Manga Awards. Comic Book Awards Almanac.
- 2.Shogakukan.
- 3.Japan Media Arts Festival. 1998[2nd]Japan Media Arts Festival.
- 4.15th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Winners Announced. Anime News Network. May 2, 2011.
- 5.Top 50 Manga Creators by Sales Since 2010. Anime News Network. August 5, 2011.
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El jardín de la señora Murakami = Oto no-Murakami monogatari, 2001
Motoka Murakami was born in 1951 at Setagaya.
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