A textile dyer from Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture. Born in 1938 into a family of dyers, he graduated from Hamamatsu Technical High School and then entered the Serizawa Keisuke Dyeing Research Institute in Kamata, Tokyo. After six years of training he returned home and took over the family business. He works across traditional Japanese dyeing techniques including katazome (stencil dyeing), tsutsugaki (freehand paste-resist dyeing), and shibori (tie-dyeing), and has received awards at the Japan Folk Crafts Museum Exhibition. Operating from his own gallery "Atelier Nuiya," he continues to stand at the dyeing table in his studio to this day.