Kazuhiro Furuhashi

KAZUHIRO FURUHASHI (Japan, 1960).
"Rurouni Kenshin."
Celluloid + adhered drawing.
Measurements: 23 x 27 cM (celluloid); 24 x 27 cm (drawing).
Rurouni Kenshin is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nobuhiro Watsuki. The story begins in 1878, the eleventh year of the Meiji era in Japan, and follows a former Bakumatsu assassin known as Hitokiri Battosai. After his work against the bakufu, he becomes Himura Kenshin, a wandering swordsman who protects the people of Japan with a vow to never take another life. Watsuki wrote the series based on his desire to make a sh?nen manga series different from others published at the time, with Kenshin being a former assassin and the story taking on a more serious tone as it progressed.