Setsuko lived with Balthus at the Villa Medici, where he presided as director of the French Academy in Rome.
In 1968, she gave birth to a son, Fumio, who died aged two years and six months.
[2][3] In 1977, Setsuko and Balthus left the French Academy and moved to Le Grand Chalet in Rossinière, Switzerland, where she still lives with her daughter Harumi, her son-in-law, photographer Benoît Peverelli, and her two grandchildren.
Setsuko's art has been exhibited in, among other places, Rome, New York, Paris, London and Tokyo.
[6] Her Paris studio is within the workshops in Astier de Villatte ceramic factory.