【Biography】
1950 Born in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.
1971 Graduated from Yamaguchi College of Art.
1978 Award for Shell Art Award.
1979 Finished Sokei Academy of Fine Art & Design, Printmaking course.
Argas Award in International print biennale, UK.
1982 Merit Award in International print biennale, Miami.
1984 Wasaku Kobayashi Award in Yamaguchi.
2000 Special prize in Sesshu Grand prix Masuda Art Awards.
2007 Gran Prix in Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Awards.
2008 “Self-portraits for 365 days” was sold for 50000 USD at Phillips Auction.
Lives and works in Yamaguchi City.

【Collection】
Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
East-Hiroshima City Art Museum
Yamaguchi Prefectural Office
Yamaguchi Prefectural Police Station
Masuda City
Yamaguchi Red Cross Blood Center
Tokyo Station Gallery
Ministry of Culture Belgium

【Important Solo Exhibition】
2012 Cite International Des Arts Paris.
Art Fair Tokyo 2012, Mizoe Art Gallery.
2011 Gallery Kawafune, Tokyo.
2010 “I Who Daily Continue to Copy with a Sharpened Pencil”, Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum (Recorded 45000 visitors).
Mizoe Art Gallery, Fukuoka.
2009 “Tea-ceremony room of the Purgatory”, Special Exhibition in Hagi Uragami Museum, Yamaguchi.
Gallery Kawafune, Tokyo.
2008 Special Exhibition for Grand prix Artist in Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Awards, Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum.
Gallery Kawafune, Tokyo.
2007 Gallery Kawafune, Tokyo.
“The World of Flowers drawn by color pencil”, Kami City Art Museum, Kochi.
2005 Gallery Kawafune, Tokyo.
2004 Gallery Kawafune, Tokyo.
2003 Gallery Kawafune, Tokyo.
“Flowers stared with color pencil”, Creative Space Red Bricks, Yamaguchi.
2002 Ogori City Culture Museum, Yamaguchi.
1984 “Self-portraits for 730 days”, Shimonoseki City Art Museum, Yamaguchi.
Exhibition of Drawings and Prints, Aoi Gallery, Tokyo.
1982 Aoi Gallery, Tokyo.
1981 Aoi Gallery, Tokyo.
1980 Exhibition of Drawings and Prints, Yamaguchi Civic Center.
1981 Aoi Gallery, Tokyo.

【Important Group Exhibition】
2012 “Did you see 3.11?”, Old Bank Of Japan Hiroshima Branch.
2011 “Half Agriculture and Half Art”, East-Hiroshima City Art Museum.
2010 Art Document Hiroshima 2010, Old Bank Of Japan Hiroshima Branch.
2009 “Art of Power Born of Pleasure”, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemprary Art.
2007 “Roppongi Crossing 2007”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo.