Yuki Rei was born in Tokyo in 1928, with the given name Uemura Noria. He graduated from the Athenee-Francais Tokyo, a French language school, in 1952, after which he learned woodblock printmaking as a student of Takumi Shinagawa.Rei began exhibiting in 1954 with the Nihon Hanga Kyokai - the Japanese Print Association - and was later a regular participant in the prestigious annual CWAJ print shows. Yuki Rei is the co-author of Japanese Printmaking: A Handbook of Traditional and Modern Techniques written together with Toshi Yoshida. Yuki Rei died in 2003.

  International collections

• British Museum, London, United Kingdom.
• National Museum of International Art, Osaka, Japan.
• Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio, USA.
• Musée Denon, Charlon-sur-Saone, France.
• Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan.
• Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan.
• Sakima Museum, Okinawa.
  
  Exhibitions
  
  
• 1954 - Nihon Hanga Kyokai
• 1970 - 47th Annual Shun'yo-kai (Spring Principle Assoc.)
• 1970 and 1990 - Xylon International Print Triennial, Switzerland
• 1991 - Premio International Print Biennial, Italy
• 1992 - Mexico-Japan Print Exhibition, Mexico City
• 1996 - Solo Exhibition, Yokohama, Japan.
• 1999 - Shunyo-kai Art Exhibition, Tokyo (prize was awarded).
• 2000 - Han 17 Exhibition, Toronto, Canada.
• More than 20 CWAJ Print Shows.