title: Naruto Illustration Book
author:  Masashi Kishimoto 
description: Author/artist Masashi Kishimoto was born in 1974 in rural Okayama Prefecture, Japan. After spending time in art college, he won the Hop Step Award for new manga artists with his manga <b><i>Karakuri</i></b><i> (Mechanism)</i>. Kishimoto decided to base his next story on traditional Japanese culture. His first version of <b><i>Naruto</i></b>, drawn in 1997, was a one-shot story about fox spirits; his final version, which debuted in <b><i>Weekly Shonen Jump</i></b> in 1999, quickly became the most popular ninja manga in Japan.
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  # NOVEL NARUTO. Sasuke Retsuden: The Uchiha Descendants and the Heavenly
  Stardust 2019
  
  Jun Esaka Masashi Kishimoto
  
  This book was produced in EPUB format by the Internet Archive.
  
  The book pages were scanned and converted to EPUB format automatically. This
  process relies on optical character recognition, and is somewhat susceptible
  to errors. The book may not offer the correct reading sequence, and there may
  be weird characters, non-words, and incorrect guesses at structure. Some page
  numbers and headers or footers may remain from the scanned page. The process
  which identifies images might have found stray marks on the page which are not
  actually images from the book. The hidden page numbering which may be
  available to your ereader corresponds to the numbered pages in the print
  edition, but is not an exact match; page numbers will increment at the same
  rate as the corresponding print edition, but we may have started numbering
  before the print book's vis