A dentist by profession, Reiichi Konnai (b. 1950; former name Horiguchi) is an eagle-eyed observer, and his very accurate and artistic drawings of the planets are well known. He is also a pioneer of high-resolution planetary photography, and he authored a chapter on it in Planet Guidebook (Seibundo-Shinkosha, 1981).
Discovered on 19-2-1996 in Oizumi by Kobayashi, T.