Born in 1976 in Tokyo. After graduating from the Kuwasawa Design School and working at an apparel company, he turned to ceramics. He completed the Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Technology College, then apprenticed under Tōzan Kimura at Tōkeidō, a kiln of one of the six founding Bizen pottery families in Bizen City, Okayama Prefecture. In 2012, he relocated and established his own studio in Mashiko, Tochigi Prefecture. His work blends the traditional beauty of unglazed, kiln-fired Bizen ware with the spirit of Mashiko's "beauty of use" to create vessels suited to everyday life.