Kawasaki Shunichi

Awards
・For "Kujira ga shindara (When a Whale Dies)"
56th Kodansha Picture Book Award – 2025
16th Kindergarten Picture Book Award (Japan) – 2025
4th Kinokuniya “Kinobest! Kids” No.1 – 2025
6th TSUTAYA Picture Book Award, Grand Prize – 2025
1st NIC Bookstore Picture Book Award – 2025
9th Japan Children’s Book Research Association Award – 2025
35th Kenbuchi Picture Book Village Award – Alpaca Prize – 2025

Books & Publications
Mass Extinction Exhibition Catalogue, National Museum of Nature and Science – Cover & illustrations, 2025
A History of the Rise and Fall of Life on Earth: The Sky (Ken Tsuchiya, Gijutsu-Hyoronsha) – Illustrations, 2025
Tracing Evolution with Your Fingers (Text: Tomoyuki Mikami, KADOKAWA) – Illustrator, to be published June 11, 2025
The Great Dinosaur Extinction (Ken Tsuchiya, KADOKAWA) – Illustrations, 2025
Science Quiz Book to Sharpen Thinking Skills (Seitosha) – Illustrations, 2024
Animals: Past and Present Encyclopedia (Ken Tsuchiya, Holp Publishing) – Illustrations, 2024
Biomimetics Will Change the Future (Satoru Tachibana, WAVE Publishing) – Cover illustration, 2024
Picture book "Kujira ga shindara(When a Whale Dies)" (Text: Eri Eguchi, Doshinsha) – Illustrator, 2024
BRUTUS No.1011 “Summer, SF.” (Magazine House) – SF creatures & mecha encyclopedia illustrations, 2024
Illustration No.242: Artists Who Draw Living Things, Part 2 (Genkosha) – Featured illustrations & cover art, 2024
A History of the Rise and Fall of Invertebrate Life (Ken Tsuchiya, Gijutsu-Hyoronsha) – Illustrations, 2023
Stories of New Species Discoveries (Ed. Tomoyuki Shimano & Tsukasa Waki, Iwanami Junior Shinsho) – Cover illustration, 2023
Before Dinosaurs (Ken Tsuchiya, Bookman-sha) – Illustrations & cover, 2022
20 Dinosaur Stories (Seitosha) – Illustrations, 2022
I Started Studying Cockroaches (Shizuma Yanagisawa, East Press) – Illustrations, 2022
A Secretly Enjoyable World of Coprolite Fossils (Ken Tsuchiya, Gijutsu-Hyoronsha) – Illustrations & cover, 2022
An Evolutionary History of Functional Traits (Ken Tsuchiya, Misuzu Shobo) – Illustrations & cover, 2021
A History of the Rise and Fall of Life on Earth: Shorelines (Ken Tsuchiya, Gijutsu-Hyoronsha) – Illustrations, 2021
The Birth of the Chibanian (Makoto Okada, Poplar Publishing) – Cover illustration, 2021
So Interesting You Can’t Sleep: Prehistoric Life (Nihon Bungeisha) – Cover & illustrations, 2020
Gakken Science Picture Book Who Am I? – Illustrations, 2020
Anomalocaris Anatomy Book (Ken Tsuchiya, Bookman-sha) – Illustrations & cover, 2020
BIRDER Magazine August Issue “Extinct Birds” (Bun-ichi Sogo Publishing) – Illustrations & text, 2019
A Dinosaur Researcher’s Busy and Delightful Daily Life (Makoto Manabe, Bookman-sha) – Illustrations, comics & cover, 2019
Futabasaurus: Another Story (Tamaki Sato, Bookman-sha) – Illustrations & cover, 2018
Introduction to Ichthyology (Yusuke Miyazaki, Ohmsha) – Illustrations, 2018
Picture book "Umigameguri(The sea around us)" (by Shunichi Kawasaki, Kasetsusha) – 2017

Media
NHK Educational Television The Wakey Show – Educational song “Zushinka” illustrations, 2025

Exhibitions & Events
National Museum of Nature and Science, “Mass Extinction Exhibition” – Exhibition visuals, PR materials & catalogue illustrations, 2025
Enoshima Aquarium “Deep Sea Exhibition” – Key visuals & exhibition illustrations, 2024–2025

Solo Exhibitions
Zorozoro Ancient Creatures – Sozoro Shobo, Koenji, Aug 15–24, 2025
Picture Book Original Art Exhibition When a Whale Dies – Crab Books, Koenji, Oct 25–Nov 25, 2024
Crab Exhibition – Crab Books, Koenji, 2023
An Illustrated Atlas of Cute Ancient Invertebrates – Koenji, 2023
Ginza Tsutaya Special Exhibition Traits – Ginza, 2022
Ancient Creatures Exhibition – Kichijoji, 2021
Wild Work – Osaka, 2019
Plus numerous appearances at large-scale events such as Ikimonia