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Japanese manga artist
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Takashi Iwashige (いわしげ孝, Iwashige Takashi, 1954 - 2013) was a Japanese manga artist who wrote primarily martial-arts manga celebrating individuality. He is best known for the judo series Hanamaru Legend and its sequel New Hanamaru Legend. He received the 1986 Shogakukan Manga Award for seinen/general manga for Bokkemon.
On 6 March 2013, Iwashige died at age 58.
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小学館漫画賞：歴代受賞者 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on 24 April 2005. Retrieved 19 August 2007.
