Born in Toyama in 1956
1980 Graduated from Kanazawa College of Art, Department of Crafts, Casting
2001: Received the Takashimaya Art Award from the Takashimaya Cultural Foundation
2007: Won the Grand Prize at the Sano Renaissance Casting Exhibition

Recent major group exhibitions
2000 "Looking at Utsuwa - Crafts that Live in Our Lives" Crafts Gallery, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo/Tokyo
2002 "Hands On" Philadelphia Museum of Art/Philadelphia, USA
2003 "Twist in Japan" Nancy Museum of Fine Arts/Nancy, France
"21 Artists from Europe and Asia" 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa/Ishikawa
2006 "Collect" Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
"Japanese Crafts" Gallery Besson/London, UK
2007 "Collect" Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
"Japanese Suppleness" Gatehuset, Frederiksveag, Denmark
2008 "A Japanese Dialogue" Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2009 "Raising the Bar" Middlesbrough Museum of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, UK

Collection
Victoria and Albert Museum/London, UK
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham, England
Philadelphia Museum of Art/Philadelphia, USA
Royal Scottish Museums and Galleries/Edinburgh, UK
Aberdeen Art Gallery/Aberdeen, England
Danish Royal Family/Copenhagen, Denmark
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo/Tokyo