As of autumn 2014, he has produced six books of photographs of people in cities, including Citizens: 1979–1983, which won the Society of Photography Award.
He was the official photographer of the butoh dance group Byakko-sha (白虎社) from 1982 to 1994.
[1] He studied photography at Ōsaka Shashin Senmon Gakkō (now Visual Arts Osaka).
[2] From 1982 to 1994 he was the official photographer for Byakko-sha (白虎社), a butoh dance group based in Kyoto.
[2] He has been a member of the Osaka-based photography collective running Vacuum Press since 2006.