Hari is the fifth son of the chief priest at Kōdenji, a family temple in the former Saga Domain.
He holds a level of 8th dan in aikido, and he studied an offshoot of Shintō Musō-ryū staff fighting called "Tai no Jō" (体の杖).
He currently operates in Saga City a dojo devoted to the study of aikido and jōjutsu (staff fighting).
He won the 1973 Japan Cartoonists Association Award for Excellence for his work Hari Sunao Nigaoe Mangashū: Sokkuri (針すなお似顔絵漫画集・そっくり).
[1] He also won the Bungeishunjū Manga Award in 1998 for his political caricatures.