Born in Aso City, Kumamoto Prefecture, in 1981. He studied ceramics and glazing at the Kyoto Prefectural Ceramic Technical College and the Kyoto Municipal Institute of Industrial Technology and Culture, then trained in Kyoto before taking over Takimuro Kiln—founded by his father—in 2010. He forms pieces on the wheel using a semi-porcelain clay body blending Amakusa porcelain clay and Mino clay, applies his own custom-blended glazes, and presses the thrown forms into molds to imprint patterns through a technique called rokuro-kataguchi. The result is vessels adorned with delicate raised designs of botanicals, geometric motifs, and more.