I had a dream to be a nun or an artist when I was 18 years old. I was influenced by Hermann Hesse’s “Narcissus and Goldmund”.

At university, I majored in English and American Literature, then became a teacher in Yokohama city. After 10 years of teaching, I remembered my dream to be an artist. Different from the longing, I had at around the age of 18, I had a strong motivation to study fine arts to understand human deep psyche and phenomenon on earth. 　

In Boston, I transferred from being a junior in college, to majoring in art history and studio art. My body was a sponge, and absorbed knowledge and experiences like fresh water. In graduate school, at SMFA  affiliated with Tufts University, I devoted myself to studio art. 

I returned to Japan in 1996, and started to teach again and continued until 2017. My last school was GKA, Gunma Kokusai Academy (an immersion school). Looking back as a teacher, I was teaching students the ways how to face and understand themselves  through the studies of fine arts. We tried to solve mysterious things in the expression of art together. Luckily I became a witness of the moment when the students found a hint of how to enjoy the life and survive in the future. 

"Looking for light, a hope...creating life, the hope..."