About the Artist
A Ceramic Artist in Ongoing Dialogue with the Earth
Story
It all began after school,
when a teacher and friends first introduced him to ceramics.
The sensation never left him —
it settled quietly in the depths of memory.
Through years of work in the arts,
a thought slowly took shape:
"If it were me — I would make it differently."
Born in Fukuyama, Hiroshima, in 1959.
He studied aesthetics and art history at Beppu University,
and from there, pursued a visual language entirely his own —
unbound by tradition, yet deeply rooted in it.
Honoring the gifts of nature while embracing a contemporary eye,
his work weaves together the traditions of Japanese civilization
and the sensibilities of the modern world.
He continues, still —
in pursuit of harmony between the beauty of the natural world
and the rhythm of the universe.
He takes the raw earth in his hands, and listens — to the voice of soil, water, and fire. The character of the land. Its texture. Its resistance. Its color. From each of these, a work with its own expression is born.
Career
1959 Born in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture
1981 Graduated from Beppu University, Department of Aesthetics and Art History
2004 Selected for the 21st Tanabe Museum of Art Grand Prize “Tea Ceremony Art Exhibition”
2005 Selected for the 22nd Tanabe Museum of Art Grand Prize “Tea Ceremony Art Exhibition”
2007 Held a “Chawan Exhibition” at the Fukuyama Museum of Art
2012 Built his own studio by hand in Ueda-cho, Miyoshi City
PresentRepresentative, Art Community Studio TAO / Lecturer, Fukuyama Seibu Citizens’ University / Holds exhibitions in various locations
Activity
The story behind each work
Grateful for Every Encounter
To all who have touched my work —
I pray that you are held in happiness.
