Nakamura Fusetsu

When he was still a child, his family moved to Nagano Prefecture to escape the difficulties created by the Meiji Restoration.

In 1894, he met the poet, Masaoka Shiki, who also worked as a journalist, and obtained a position doing illustrations for Small Japanism, an Anti-colonialist newspaper.

Upon returning to Japan in 1905, he became a member of "Pacific Art [ja], a group devoted to the promotion of Western-style painting.

He also did book illustrations; notably for I am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki (1906), and the Blue Cliff Record.

He was not only a calligrapher himself, but spent his life collecting examples of Classical calligraphy; both Japanese and Chinese.