Fujiwo Ishimoto is a Japanese-born textile and ceramic artist who has lived in Finland since 1970. Ishimoto studied graphic design at Tokyo National University of Art 1960-1964. After seeing Maija Isola's Marimekko patterns in Tokyo in the 1960s, Ishimoto decided to travel to Finland to get to know Marimekko and Finnish design.

Ishimoto worked as a designer for Décembre from 1970-1974 and as a designer for Marimekko from 1974-2006. He has designed a total of about 400 printed fabric models for Marimekko. Ishimoto has also designed ceramics for Arabia since 1989 and made costumes and sets. Fujiwo Ishimoto's design work combines Japaneseness and Finnish nature. The love for ceramics partly stems from the artist's childhood, as his childhood home in Ehime is located in an old pottery village. Ishimoto has held exhibitions both in Finland and Japan.

The richly illustrated book has been published in conjunction with Fujiwo Ishimoto's Matkalla exhibition held at the Amos Anderson Art Museum from August 23 to October 7, 2001.