Suzuki Kason, sometimes romanized as Kwason or Kwasson, was born in Tokyo as the son of an Edo kimono merchant. He undertook artistic artistic training in nihonga at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts and studied woodblock printing under the tutelage of master sōsaku hanga printer Hiratsuka Un’ichi. He began working on crepe-paper books with Hasegawa Takejirō in 1887 beginning with My Lord Bag-O’-Rice. By 1893, Suzuki was part of Hasegawa’s stable team along with Arai Yoshimune and Mishima Shōsō. His style is known for his delicate linework and color, especially his use of bokashi gradient. In the 1890s, he produced some newspaper illustrations for Hochi Shinbun and a print for the English-language book Hana, A Daughter of Japan (1904). Despite this success, he worked primarily as a painter. A member of the Japan Art Institute since 1898, he received recognition at the first and third Bunten exhibitions (1907 and 1909, respectively), as well as the 1910 Japanese-British Exposition.