Born in 1953 in Hokkaido, Japan
Lives and works in Chiba and Tokyo

His works can be found in numerous collections including those of the Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Tokyo, the National Ceramic Museum in Sèvres, the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris, the Ariana Museum in Geneva and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. A pioneer in specialized teaching for the blind in Japan, he taught for 23 years at a school for the visually impaired in Chiba and directed the Nishimura Research Centerat Japan’s Women’s University in Tokyo-