• Name

  小島 武 こじま たけし KOJIMA Takeshi

• Job Title

  Illustrator

• Birth

  1940

• Death

  2009

• Area

  Tokyo

• Profile

  Born in Manchuria in 1940. After being repatriated to Kitakyushu, Kojima lived in Hakata until high school, where he became immersed in cinema. He moved to Tokyo, where he attended Kuwasawa Design School. His illustrations and graphics cover a wide variety of genres, such as music, the stage, advertising, and publishing. From 1962, Kojima worked as a freelance illustrator, and in 1993 he was presented with the 24th Kondansha Publishing Culture Award in the Illustration category. His major works include projects with Art Theatre Shinjuku Bunka, Hitoshi Komuro, Yosui Inoue, and Wataru Takada, and his art has featured on the cover of Number magazine, as well as in Hanashi no Tokushu, New Music Magazine, Shosetsu Shincho.

  Source: 2021

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