Lyu Hanabusa was born in Osaka, Japan. He made his debut as a professional photographer with the individual exhibition One More Something in 1970 at the Nikon Salon Tokyo. Hanabusa has published a wide variety of works including portraits of celebrities, nude photography, collaborative works with novelists, and travel and landscape photography. Hanabusa's major publications include Féminité, Presence, BACK, MARURU -Paradise Tahiti- , LAZY FISH, BEDROOM, PARIS PARIS, HANABUSA LYU and Musee du Louvre. His exhibitions include Something coming far from Consciousness, Portraits of Women Living in Paris, KABUKI, Time of Creation BAROQUE, MARURU/TAHITI and NudePortraits. Hanabusa is a member of the Japan Professional Photographers Society. Hanabusa's two new publications, Musée d'Orsay and Palaces in Paris, will appear this coming autumn.

When Hanabusa was asked by Mark Williamson to create a photographic image sympathetic to the enjoyment of wine for Willi's Wine Bar, he set out to create a strong, lasting and fantastical response to these pleasures, in harmony with Mark's principal theme throughout the series. So far Lyu Hanabusa has created two photographic images for Willi's Wine Bar, in 1993 and in 2001.