Biography
Born in the Akasaka district of Tokyo in 1950, I studied social anthropology and traveled America, Europe, and Asia in the ‘70s and ‘80s. From 1992, I worked as Creative Producer for world famous advertising agency Dentsu in Jakarta and pursued work in television commercial development for the Japanese market. Starting in 1998, getting back to nature, I discontinued my advertising work and spent 2 years in the heart of the Indonesian jungles of Java Semarang, before returning to Japan.
As a freelance visualist, I creates still photography, graphic design and graphic imagery, expanding the medium. In 2004, I exhibited the collection “MAI” at a gallery in Tokyo’s Ginza, AKUROSU with the renowned Hosho Noh Actor Noboru Sano, and also showed at galleries in Fukuoka and Koichi Prefectures in Japan. In 2005 I was commissioned to do portraits of Japanese Cabinet members and other high-level business figures for the economics magazines Forbes and Forbes Asia.
I have received the Tokyo Auto Salon Best Design Award (1988), the London International Advertising Award (1996), the Kobe Bienalle Photographic Competition Award (2007), and was finalist of the National Photo Competition (2008 ~2011), Modern art Competition (2009), Asia Digital Art Award (2010), Nikakai Association of Photographers (2013)
