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is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known as an author of baseball manga, such as ''Yakyū-kyō no Uta'', ''Dokaben'', and ''Abu-san''. He is a two-time recipient of the Shogakukan Manga Award. His works has collected more than 500 tankōbon volumes making him one of the most productive mangaka. ==Biography== Mizushima began his career in 1958 when his debut work, ''Shinya no Kyaku'', was awarded by a local manga magazine based in Osaka. He moved to Tokyo in 1964, where he began to publish numerous works for the ''Shōnen King'' magazine. His first serious work involving baseball came in 1969, when he published ''Ace no Jyōken''. He also began to work for the ''Shōnen Sunday'' and ''Shōnen Champion'' magazines in 1970, where he published his first major hits in ''Otoko do Ahou Kōshien'' and ''Zenikko''. His most iconic work, ''Dokaben'', was first serialized on ''Shōnen Champion'' in 1972, and ''Yakyū-kyō no Uta'' was published in ''Monthly Shōnen Magazine'' the same year. ''Abu-san'' began publication on ''Big Comic Original'' in 1973. He received the Shogakukan Manga Award in 1974 for ''Otoko do Ahou Kōshien'' and ''Deba to Bat'', and again in 1977 for ''Abu-san''. Mizushima's serialized works gained major standing around this period, making him a fixture in the manga industry and the foremost author of baseball manga. In 1975, he published ''Ikkyu-san''; the continuation to ''Otoko do Ahou Kōshien'', for ''Shōnen Sunday'' and ''Kyūdō-kun'' for ''Shōnen Big Comic'' in 1976. In 1977, he started ''Ikkyū Nyūkon'', a magazine specializing in baseball manga, where he serialized ''Hakkyū no Uta'', the counterpart to ''Yakyū-kyō no Uta'' set in the Pacific League. In 1981, he began publication of ''Hikari no Kojirō''; an audacious work featuring an entirely original Japanese baseball league and commission. In 1983, Mizushima published ''Dai Kōshien''; a work featuring characters from ''Dokaben'', ''Yakyū-kyō no Uta'', ''Otoko do Ahou Kōshien'', ''Ikkyū-san'', ''Kyūdō-kun'', and many of the other popular high-school baseball manga he had authored up until then. Mizushima continued to author numerous works through the 1980s, most notably ''Niji wo Yobu Otoko'' (1987) and ''Ohayō K-jirō'' (1990). During the 1990s, Mizushima began to build on his most successful works, starting ''Dokaben Pro-yakyū hen'' in 1995 on the ''Shōnen Champion'' magazine, and ''Yakyū-kyō no Uta Heisei hen'' in 1997 for ''Mister Magazine''. Mizushima continued this trend with ''Shin Yakyū-kyō no Uta'' (2000) and ''Dokaben Super Stars hen'' (2004), and has also continued to author ''Abu-san'', which has spanned over 90 volumes since its inception in 1973. In 2004, Mizushima auctioned off the right to appear as a character in ''Abu-san'' for over 3 million yen as a fundraiser for Mangajapan. Mizushima marked his 50th anniversary as a manga artist in 2007, and ''Shōnen Champion'' placed ''Dokaben'' on its front cover along with messages and illustrations from many other manga artists such as Osamu Akimoto, Takao Saito, Mitsuru Adachi, Takehiko Inoue, Rumiko Takahashi, Fujiko Fujio, and Hiroshi Takahashi to celebrate Mizushima's achievements. Other enthusiasts and baseball icons including Sadaharu Oh, Shigeo Nagashima, Takeshi Kitano, Hideki Matsui, and Kenji Jojima also contributed messages. Mizushima remains the oldest active manga artist to serialize on weekly publications, 13 years older than the next-youngest artist (Osamu Akimoto). On 2007, he won the 36th Japan Cartoonists Association Award in the category "Literary Giant Award".〔()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shinji Mizushima」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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