1943 Born in Ashiya, Hyogo
1966 B.A., Kyoto City College of Fine Arts, Ceramics major
1968 Graduate studies, Kyoto City College of Fine Arts, Graduate degree
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
1983 Japanese National Ceramics Exhibition, juried shows '73, '79, '81
1986 Kazuo Yagi Award, Contemporary Ceramic Exhibition '87, '88, '89
1988 Asahi Contemporary Crafts Exhibition, invitational '92, 2001
1990 New Artist Award, Yamanashi Museum of Art
1991 Gold Medal Award, International Competition of Ceramic Art (juried show), Faenza, Italy
1992 International Invitational contemporary Exhibition of Ceramic Art, Merit Award, Taipei, Taiwan
1993 Contemporary Ceramic Works “UTSUWA,” Saitama Museum
1996 “New Expression in Porcelain: Developments in the 1990s,”
The National Museum of Modern Art, Crafts Gallery, Tokyo
1996 “Contemporary Ceramic: Japanese Women,”
Japan Information and Culture Center,Washington, DC, USA
1997 Fuji-Seoul (Horizontal and Vertical) “A Vision of Eight Crafts- Japanese and Korean
Artists,” Seoul, Korea
1998 NHK "Calling on Ceramists” Studio Visits '98
2000 3 & 3 Barcelona-Japón,Barcelona, Spain
2001 World Ceramic Exposition 2001, Korea (juried show)
Invitational Exhibition of Cheongju International Craft Biennale 2001, Korea
2002 “The Legacy of Modern Ceramic Art,” Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu
2005-06 Contemporary Clay Japanese Ceramics for the New Century,” Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston, Japan Society in New York City
2007-2012 Soaring Voices- Contemporary Japanese Women Ceramic Artists,” The Shigaraki
Ceramic Cultural Park, Muzee National de Ceramique, Sevres, France (traveling USA)
2009-2011 The 10th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition (a traveling exhibition
organized by the University of Hawaii Art Gallery)
2011 Japan x Faenza Pottery Modern, Italian Cultural Institute
2014 “What is pottery?” A Japan Ceramics Network joint exhibition
2016 Women artists in Yamanashi, Yamanashi Prefecture Museum
Solo Exhibitions (1968～2015)
Gallery Nippon (Tokyo), Ikebukuro Seibu Gallery, Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Gallery, Galerie
Pousse (Tokyo), Masuda Studio (Tokyo), Kandori (Tokyo), Hankyu Gallery (Kobe,
Umeda), Estudio Peironcely (Madrid,Spain), Gallery Daiichiarts (New York, USA),
NaNo-rium (Yamanashi Prefecture)
Public Collections
Japan Foundation, Yamanashi Museum of Art, Takamatsu City Museum
The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, National Museum of History, Taiwan
Denver Museum of Art, Colorado, USA
Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu
Barcelona Ceramic Museum, Barcelona, Spain
Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, USA
Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut, USA
The Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
Hawaii Foundation of Culture