Biography

I was born and raised in a farming family growing rice and oranges in Aichi prefecture,Japan, where l gained a sense of Japanese color from the four seasons of rural landscape.

When I was in junior high school I became crazy about girls' Japanese manga and spent time copying the drawings every day.

Girls' manga in the 1970s was drawn with a cute face and big eyes, and abstract patterns were often used for background expression and for psychological description.

Those free abstract expressions have influenced me strongly, throughout my whole career.

As a high school student, I learned watercolor painting and drawing earnestly.
I was impressed with the beautiful pigments of Japanese paintings.
I majored in Japanese painting at Musashino Art University in Tokyo.

The colors of Japanese painting materials is a tool that I can use to express my most natural feelings.

I have been consistently holding solo exhibitions and entering competitions regularly using Japanese painting materials to this day.

In the beginning of 2016, I created a traditional kakejiku(Japanese tapestry).
I was immediately impressed with the quality of the hanging craftsmen, so I started collaborating with them and decided to preserve the traditional style.

Moreover, I was also worried about the culture of kimonos in the current Japanese society.
So I came up with a new original kakejiku to produce by reusing a mother's kimono who passed away.
My feminine coordination enables a novel combination of kimono fabric and my paintings.
The kimono pattern also reflects an expression of emotion.

I wish to present the beauty of traditional Japanese art, through my collaborative works to people all over the World.