Masatoshi Kawahara

{{Short description|Japanese manga artist}}

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{{nihongo|Masatoshi Kawahara|川原 正敏|Kawahara Masatoshi|born 17 August 1960 in Mihara, Hiroshima}} is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known as the author of the long-running series Shura no Mon and its prequel Shura no Toki, for which he won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen in 1989.{{cite web|url=http://www.hahnlibrary.net/comics/awards/kodansha.shtml |author=Joel Hahn |title=Kodansha Manga Awards |work=Comic Book Awards Almanac |accessdate=2007-08-21 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070816031310/http://www.hahnlibrary.net/comics/awards/kodansha.shtml |archivedate=2007-08-16 |url-status=dead }}