Born in 1951. Graduated from the Tokyo College of Photography. Recent group exhibition includes “The Shadow" (Vestjællands Kunstmuseum, Denmark 2005), “Photography Today 2: Site/Sight" (The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo 2002), and at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Hara Museum of Art, etc. Recent one-person exhibition: “Puddles" (Photo Gallery International [P.G.I], Tokyo 2006), “Bubbles of Lotus" (P.G.I, 2004), “Patrone" (P.G.I. 2000), “In the Shadow" (P.G.I. 1998), “Contact Print Stories" (Laurence Miller Gallery 1992)