Fujimori Shizuo was a contemporary artist born in 1891 in Kurume city, Fukuoka Prefecture. In 1910, Fujimori attended the Hakubakai institute, studying under Western-style painters Kuroda Seiki and Fujishima Takeji. The following year, he enrolled in the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, becoming close friends with artists Onchi Koshiro and Tanaka Kyokichi. The three adolescents quickly formed a strong fraternal bond and nicknamed themselves the "Three Men of the Smile Society." 

In 1913, the trio began collaborating on a magazine featuring various collections of mokuhanga and poetry titled Tsukuhae. By March of the following year, the men had enough material to publish six issues. Onchi approached an executive at the Rakuyodo company who agreed to publish. The first issue was released in September 1914, and publication continued for seven issues until November 1915. Although short-lived, Tsukuhae is significant in that it reflects the angst and melancholy nature of male adolescence, with themes of youth, sexuality, death, and suffering. 

Furthermore, the publication reveals some of Fujimori's more expressionist poems and prints, such as Piano of Evening (1914). As his artistic skills continued to develop, Fujimori took part in the first Nihon Sosaku Hanga Kyokai exhibition in 1919 and later became a founding member of the Japan Print Society (Nihon Hanga Kyokai). Over the next several years, he worked as a school teacher in Taiwan and Fukuoka before returning to Tokyo in 1922 to become a full-time artist. From 1926 to 1937, he exhibited with Shun'yokai, or "Spring Red Association," an arts organization based in Kyoto. Also, Fujimori served as the main editor of Shi to Hanga, and from 1929 to 1932, contributed to Shin Hanga, Han Geijutsu, Kasuri, Jissen Hanga, Kaze, Bijutsu-han, and One Hundred Views of New Tokyo. He returned to Fukuoka in 1939, where he remained until his death at the age of fifty-two.