Born in Kochi Prefecture in 1982. After graduating from the ceramics course in the Faculty of Art and Science at Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts, he built a wood-fired kiln at the summit of Mitani-yama in Kochi City in 2006 and began his practice. He continues to make pottery while farming, and specializes in wood-ash and straw-ash glazes made from local pine and citrus wood ash, as well as rice straw ash from crops he grows himself. Firing in an anagama kiln, he produces pieces in which no two surfaces are ever alike.