After graduating from Joshibi University of Art and Design, Michiko Suganuma studied Kamakura-bori, a traditional form of lacquerware in her 20s.
In 1998 the Minato Ward Office purchased Michiko’s Kamakura-bori which was exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1984 and was finally presented to the Australian Embassy of Tokyo.
In 1984, Michiko Suganuma successfully held the first living artist’s exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, where she showed five Kamakura-bori and five urushi pieces.
In 1978 at Tokyo Metropolitan Art Gallery, she obtained Freshman Prize for a transparent urushi piece.
She makes Cinnabar-red lacquerware using a coating method basing on Kamakura-bori technique which she calls Wagae-nuri (和賀江塗).