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Yasuichi Oshima

Japanese manga artist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ4022589 ↗
Source-derived summary

Yasuichi Oshima (大島 やすいち, Ōshima Yasuichi; born 24 March 1954 in Kyoto) is a Japanese manga artist. In 1984, he won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen for Bats & Terry.

He is the father of manga artist Towa Oshima.

Editorial summary

“Yasuichi Oshima” enters the record as japanese manga artist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Yasuichi, Oshima and Japanese can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1954, 1984—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1954-03-24. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Yasuichi, Oshima and Japanese.
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Why this record matters

“Yasuichi Oshima” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Yasuichi, Oshima and Japanese provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4022589. VIAF identifies the subject as 251697405. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1954 and 1984.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Yasuichi Oshima” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.