[1] In 1988, he graduated from The Osaka City Kogei High School (Fine Arts course), and studied painting with Takashi Murakami for two years.

[2] From 1995, he restored the Japanese gold leather papers (金唐革紙 Kinkarakawashi, a kind of high-class handmade wallpaper) at Irifuneyama Memorial Hall in Kure, Ijokaku in Kobe, and Kyu-Iwasaki-tei Gardens in Tokyo (Nationally designated Important Cultural Properties of Japan).

[2][3] In 1996, he graduated from The Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, and became a student of Sumio Goto.

[1][3] From 1996 to 2010 once a year, he showed work in the Exhibition of Nihonga by Syonokai in the Ginza Matsuzakaya department store.

He teaches about the paintings of nihonga, bijinga and picture books at Tokyo University of the Arts ,[5] Tokyo Zokei University,[6] NHK Culture Center and Yomiuri Nippon Television Culture Center.