1942

Born in Akita, Japan

1966

Graduated from the Pharmaceutical university of Kobe

1973

Enrolled at the Art Student League of New York

1985

Returned to Japan

1980

Nippon Club (New York)
International Art Club (New York)
Bronx Museum for the Arts (New York)
The New School Art Center (New York)

1982

Soho Center for Visual Art (New York)

1983

Caper gallery (New York)
Viridian Gallery (New York)
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (Connecticut)
(selected New Acquisitions of Emerging Artists)

1984

Province Town Art Association and Museum (Massachusetts)

1985

Viridian gallery (New York)

1986

Tor Road Gallery (Kobe)

1987

1988

Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art "Today's Artists" (Kobe)
Shinanobashi Gallery (Osaka)
Kobe Daimiaru: Live Lab West
  "Opening Exhibit" "Christmas Display" (Kobe)
Art-Space NIJI (Kyoto)

1989

Shinanobashi Gallery (Osaka)
Atelier Nishinomiya (Nishinomiya)
Gallery Blanche (Ikeda)

1990

Osaka Contemporary Art Center "Paper Work 21" (Osaka)

1991

Gallery Ueda-Decor (Tokyo)

1992

Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art "Today's Artists" (Kobe)

1993

PV Art Center, Los Angeles Exhibit: May-October (Los Angeles, CA)

1994

Main Street Gallery Santa Monica (Santa Monica,CA)

1995

Maronie Gallery (Kyoto)
Wacoal Ginza (Tokyo)
Maronie Gallery "Box and Painting" (Kyoto)

1997

Galerie Humanite "Box and Its Universe Exhibit" (Tokyo,Nagoya)

1999

Gallery Blanche &Atelier ArtLife (Ikeda)

2000

Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art "The Earthquake and Art"
(Kobe)

2001

New York Collector's Salon (New York)
Sugiwara-Paper Exhibition (Hyogo,Kami-cho)
Fugetsudou Salon -Lecture and Speech- (Kobe)

2002

Kaneko Art Gallery (Tokyo)
Musoukan (Kobe)
Atelier Nishinomiya '02 (Nishinomiya)
Osaka Nichido Group exhibition (Osaka)
Moriyama Hall (Moriyama,Shiga)
LAD'S Gallery (Osaka)

2003

Seijyo Gallery (Sendai)
Deborah Burke Gallery (New York)
Gallery Blanche (Ikeda)

2004

LAD'S Gallery (Osaka)
Kaneko Art Gallery (Tokyo)
Shimada Gallery (Kobe)
Hyogo Prefectural Museum (Hyogo)
  (collection's exhibition "Modern Dancer")

2005

Takatsuki Contemporary Theater
  (Lecture & Speech for O'Keefe)
Oyama Gallery (Osaka)
Collector's Salon(New York)
LAD'S Gallery (Osaka)

2006

Collector's Salon (New York)
RCN Cube Arts Place (Kobe)
Hyogo Prefectural Museum 3F gallery
  "KANSAI women's artist" (Kobe)

2007

Shimada Gallery (Kobe)
Moriyama Hall (Moriyama)
Nishinomiya Otani Memorial Museum
  for New Collections (Nishinomiya)
Portopia Gallery (Kobe)
LAD'S Gallery (Osaka)
Collector's Salon (New York)

1980

Art Student League (N.Y.)

1982

International Art Club (N.Y.)
Exxon Mobile Foundation (N.Y.)

1984

Province Town Museum (MC/NY)

2003

Sekisohsha-Award (Kobe)

Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (N.Y.)
National Museum of Art,Osaka (Osaka)
Hyogo Prefectural Museum (Kobe)
Nishinomiya Otani Memorial Museum (Nishinomiya)

Japan,Los Angeles,New York,Boston,Germany,England,France,Myami
Seatle,SantaMonica,North Carolina,Connecticut,others....

I think of the mysterious universe,
It's going to be in.......
To acknowledge the wisdom of the nature,
I Paint.......

The Box....that mystery.
Inside the box. the issues that I ponder
lie within - thoughts and questions
are thrown to those who look inside

1994

"Box"

1997

"Epu to Myango no Tegami" -Essay

2004

"Three-Part of Paintings"