Yamamura (born Yoshitaka) Toyonari was a shin hanga style artist specializing in actor prints and kacho-e, or bird and flower prints. Born in Shinagawa, Tokyo, in 1885, Yamamura studied under the artist Ogata Gekko and graduated from the Tokyo School of Fine Arts Japanese-style painting division in 1907. He exhibited his first painting at Bunten in 1907 and later exhibited at Inten and Ugokai. After becoming a member of the Saiko Nihon Bijutsuin organization in 1916 and displaying various works at Inten, he was commissioned by noted publisher Watanabe Shozaburo to produce several reprints. From 1920 to 1922, the two men further collaborated on a twelve-print series depicting okubi-e actors. 

Yamamura's other works, including Pelicans, Jar of Dahlias, and Parrot, were published by Watanabe two years later in 1924. Under the guidance of Watanabe, Yamamura exhibited his kacho-e, or bird and flower prints, at the 1930 Toledo Museum Exhibition. During his tenure as a professional shin hanga artist, Yamamura produced around thirty woodblock prints. He passed away in 1942 shortly after the onset of the Pacific War.