Naoto Iwakiri is a Japanese video creator, animation director, and manga artist. He was born on September 5, 1975, and is a resident of Tokyo. Iwakiri is a graduate of Digital Hollywood and also studied at Setsu Mode Seminar. He is known to be an enthusiast of Japanese art. His representative works include the anime film Kaede Newtown and the manga Kokuhaku Tonight.

Iwakiri is the original creator of the manga Teach Me, Hokusai!, which was serialized online on the cakes website from August 9, 2016, to February 7, 2017. The series was later compiled into a single tankōbon volume, published by Sunmark Publishing on June 30, 2017. The full original title of the manga is Yume wo Kanaeru Bakusho! Nihon Bijutsu Manga Oshiete Hokusai!, which translates to Huge Laughter That Grants A Wish! Japan Arts Manga Teach Me Hokusai!.

This manga was adapted into an original net animation series titled Oshiete Hokusai!: The Animation. The ten-episode series, each episode running for eleven minutes, was produced by the studio CoMix Wave Films. It premiered and was released online from March 7 to March 14, 2021. For this anime adaptation, Naoto Iwakiri served as the director. The story follows a lazy high school girl named Tenkorin Okakura who wishes to become a great artist without effort, leading the god Raijin to summon historical Japanese painters to teach her.

Iwakiri’s work is consistently tied to his personal interest in Japanese art, which serves as the central theme of Teach Me, Hokusai! In this capacity, he functions as both the original author and the director of its screen adaptation, marking a significant role in bringing an educational story about Japanese art history to a wider audience. His earlier credit on Kaede Newtown establishes a history of work in original anime film direction.