Suwa Kanenori

[1] Born 1897, he spent his youth in Kobe, and started printing from the age of sixteen.

[1] From 1920 his prints appeared in Yomigaeri magazine, which brought him to the attention of Un'ichi Hiratsuka, one of the leaders of sōsaku hanga movement, and Fukazawa Sakuichi whom he tutored in the craft.

[1] He became a member of the Nippon Sosaku Hanga Kyokai in 1928 and participated in the One Hundred Views of New Tokyo series, to which he contributed twelve prints, "notable for their spiky, stark quality.

"[1] 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.

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