She appeared on NHK's cooking programs such as “Kyou no Ryouri (Today’s Dinner)” for the last 26 years and received public attention.
Her serving dish “Kiai” was awarded the Good Design Award by the Japan Institute of Design Promotion Organization, which is instituted by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry of Japan, in 1990.
She published nearly 200 cookbooks and essays and she also supported people who are living in the disaster areas of the Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake in 1995.
In 1994, she participated in the TV cooking contest Iron Chef, winning against Chen Kenichi.
[5] After suffering a subarachnoid hemorrhage in 2005, she died on January 23, 2014, of multiple organ failure.