According to a series of auctions, Hideaki Kodama / 小玉英章 is the illustrator behind some famous Konami games:
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2 of the auctioned paintings, signed "H Kodama" (his signature doesn't appear on the various scans we can find on the Net):
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More Konami artworks created by Hideaki Kodama / 小玉英章 auctionned on Yahoo, via
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