1968　Born in Saga, Japan.
1994　Graduated at TAMA Art University.
2007-08 Fellowship to study in Sao Paulo under the Japanese Government Overseas Study Programme for Artist
2012　The 27th Holbein Scholarship Grant.

Selected Individual Exhibitions
2014　“Echo in the depths”REIJINSHA GALLERY (Tokyo)
2012　“Like seeking for a deep water vain” Gallery YUKI-SIS, Tokyo, Japan.
2010　Gallery Yasurai, Saga, Japan.
2007　Teatres des SENS Gallery, Tokyo, Japan. Gallery Yasurai, Saga, Japan.
2005　Galeria Deco, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2000　INAX Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.

When I was reading a magazine, a certain article caught my eyes. It was on a success story of a Russian research team in putting forth buds from a seed which was 30000 years old found in Siberia. The team even succeeded in producing new seeds after full bloom. Even though we have heard about stories of sprouting out lotus seeds 1400 years old, sprouting out of seeds 30000 years old was a big surprise.
The fact that a seed which had been sleeping underground for such a long time would actually bloom was truly exciting. 30000 years ago should be about the time when the Chauvet cave painting, which is known as the oldest painting by human being, was produced. Human beings those days spent hours hunting and must have lived their daily lives with a strong sense of collaboration with and respect for nature.
This led to my imagination that if humans today still possessed such a sense deep in their minds, it might be possible to awaken their old inherent sense by somehow providing outside stimulus, just like the Russian team did to the old seeds.
At one time in the past, I realized the obvious truth that before being a human being living in today’s civilized world, we are just one of the living creatures existing in this natural universe. With such a realization, I started to create my artworks by utilizing and expressing the inherent, primitive and instinctive sense which we human beings all possess deep in our heart.
After getting too much accustomed to the hasty and civilized daily life, many of us might have either lost or do not know how to express this sense, which was the sense we had when we were living in the nature and which had been inherited from the past.
Although this sense may have degenerated through the hasty information-abundant daily life, it is my firm belief that we need to try to re-realize this sense especially in today’s world because it seems to be an absolutely indispensable element for the humans if we are to live naturally as a member or this natural universe.