A ceramic artist based in Tajimi, Gifu Prefecture. By trade he is a kiln builder who constructs electric furnaces; it was a desire to understand those who use kilns that led him to start making ceramics. He completed the program at the Tajimi City Porcelain Design Institute. His signature works include the 【Mn】 series, which uses a manganese-rich glaze to produce a metallic sheen, and the 【NYU】 series, in which the tannin from sawtooth oak acorn cups is absorbed into the crazing of the glaze.