Suwa Kanenori

Suwa Kanenori (1897–1932) was a Japanese painter and woodblock print artist associated with the sōsaku hanga ("creative print") movement. Un'ichi Hiratsuka, a friend of Suwa's who worked with him on the series, remarked that his prints had "a feeling of poetry, perhaps because he was a great poet all his life."

He worked as a designer for Shiseido, the cosmetics company, from June 1921 until his death in 1932 of appendicitis.