A ceramicist and kintsugi artist based in Ayabe, Kyoto Prefecture. Born in Osaka, she completed the ceramics course in the master's program at Kyoto University of Art and Design. She develops her own techniques as she works—rolling lumps of clay, mixing rice husks or grass into the clay body, or dotting the surface with tiny mole-like marks—and applies the same hands-on spirit to kintsugi after firing.