Taro Miura was born in Aichi, Japan, in 1968. After graduating from Osaka University of Art with a degree in screen printing, he worked for ten years as a free-lance illustrator for magazines and advertisements. He was selected for the Illustrators Exhibition for The first time in 2001 and then for five consecutive years from 2003. In 2004 he published two picture books, one with the Swiss publishing house La joie de lire and another with Edizioni Corraini in Italy. In 2005, he published his best selling picture book The picture book Chīsana ōsama (The Tiny King) won the (pre-school children in Japan: Kuttsuita (Stick Together), with Koguma Publishing. Sankei Children's Literature Culture Award in 2011.In 2014 Corraini published his stencil drawing book: Workman Stencil. An exhibition and workshops based on this book was held during the Bologna Book Fair in 2014 at MAMbo, the modern art museum in Bologna.