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Illustrator.
Born in Hokkaido in 1959 and lives and works in Kamakura.

His works feature gentle lines and warm colors, and he imbues a gentle ambience into his drawings of nature, animals, and the daily lives of people. His works have appeared in a number of solo and group exhibitions.
Kawakami is actively engaged in creating illustrations for magazines, paperback book covers, picture books, advertisements, and other media. He received the 2019 Child Welfare Culture Award for his work on the picture book Nagai Nagai Hone no Tabi (A Long, Long Bone Journey), which was penned by Motoko Matsuda.
Some of Kawakami’s more recent works include illustrations for the Asahi Shimbun serial novel Hikobae by Kiyoshi Shigematsu, the Nikkei Business serial novel Ninomiya Sontoku by Yoshinobu Kadoi, and Jiro Asada’s essay column Tsubasa-yo Tsubasa, which appears in JAL’s inflight magazine SKYWARD. Kawakami is also a member of the Tokyo Illustrators Society.