Yoshihiko Furuta was born in 1951 in Saitama Prefecture. He graduated from the Department of Sociology, Hitotsubashi University in 1974, and has worked in various administrative positions since then. He has published seven books, including both western-style poetry and haiku, and three books of prose. He won the Ginyu Natsuishi Ban'ya Prize in 2016. Major collections include the following: Confessions of a Translucent Cat (2003, poetry), Notes on a Rainbow (2006, haiku), A Pure Rainy Season (2011, haiku), and Flower Basin (2017, poetry). His work has appeared in haiku anthologies in Japan and India.