Born and raised in Japan, currently live and work in New York.
Her artworks have been exhibited in Europe, the U.S., and Japan, and have published with biographical articles in newspapers and magazines. Her works can be found in the permanent collection of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France as well as in private and corporate collections. Received several awards including First Prize in International Photography Competition.

 Her work explores human life as a journey, both deep examination of her soul as well as an exploration of universal experiences such as sorrow, loneliness, confusion and hope/ light in darkness. She has spent much of her career exploring these themes as photographer, however, more recently she have expanded to mixed media and printmaking.

 She studied journalism and photography in master’s program in the U.S.  Her early career was in broadcasting, as a news presenter on Japanese television both in New York and in Japan. It was her work with film direction that first gave her an appreciation of the power of visual imagery. This experience became the basis of her visual artistic career, and she began pursuing visual art.