Born in 1975 at the foot of Mt. Kirishima in Kagoshima Prefecture. After graduating from a technical college and working as a bridge designer, he turned to ceramics and opened a studio in Itoshima, Fukuoka Prefecture in 2002. He studied under Naoki Kojima of Sōgenya kiln, and established Sankyo kiln in 2008. With Goryeo, Joseon, and Karatsu ware at the heart of his practice, he focuses on tea bowls deeply influenced by the classical aesthetics of the Momoyama period and the Joseon dynasty. He has been selected for the Tabe Museum of Art's "Tea Ceremony Art Exhibition" and "Contemporary Tea Ceramics Exhibition," and holds solo exhibitions across Japan.