Kenichi Tahara (田原 健一, Tahara Ken'ichi) is a Japanese musician.

He plays lead guitar in the band Mr.

Children.

[1] He was born in Fukuoka,[2] and moved to Nakano, Tokyo.

[3] He attended Komae Daini Junior High School in the city of Komae, Tokyo, where he met the other future band members Keisuke Nakagawa and Hideya Suzuki.