Yukinori Dehara is a Japanese figure artist and illustrator, born in 1974 in Kochi prefecture, have been involved in advertisement works with Nike, NEC, Tower Records, ASICS Europe, and have held 4-6 shows a year in Tokyo, Taiwan, Hong Kong, New York, Los Angeles, Paris. He is known for the creator of well-known character “Kinoyama-san” and “Takezato brotheres” for “Kinoko no yama” and “Takenoko no sato”, chocolate snacks from Japanese confectioner company Meiji Co., Ltd.