b. 1949, Nagano, Japan
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1990
Exhibition, Grizedale Sculpture Park, Grizedale Forest, Cumbria
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1991
20th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo and Kyoto City Museum of Art, Kyoto
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1992
Toride, Miyosi Village, Chiba Prefecture
Exhibited at Gallery Muu, Kyoto -
1993
The Bamboo City, River Side Gallery, Tokyo
Exhibited at Gallery Casa, Fukui -
1994
Snow Pagoda, Yamanobe, Yamagata Prefecture
Pagoda of Leaves, Hibiya Park, Tokyo
Bamboo Pagoda, Credo Hall, Hiroshima
Basketry Art Exhibition, Studio Com, Kyoto
Contemporary Art in the Peninsula Exhibition, Kamogawa City Gallery, Kamogawa -
1995
Cherry Pagoda, Jardin de Wiltz, Luxembourg
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1996
1996, Bamboo Arc , Commissioned Work, Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
1996, Bamboo Pagoda on the Snow Commissioned, Yamanobe, Yamagata Prefecture
1996, Circle in the Water, Awa Biennial ’96, Kamogawa City, Chiba Prefecture
1996, Cut the Woven Circle, Sakura City Museum of Art
Bend the Woven Circle, Sakura City Museum of Art
Exhibited at Gallery Isogaya, Tokyo -
1997
Three Woven Balls, Yoshida-machi, Saitama Prefecture and Yamanobe, Yamagata Prefecture
Basketry Annual Exhibition, Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
Chiba Art Flash 97, Chiba City Gallery, Inage
Exhibited at Comodo Art Plaza, Chiba City -
1998
1998, 98 Cocoons, ARTE SELLA, Italy
1998, Polaris,Shibayama Sculpture Festival, Chiba Prefecture
The Japanese Aesthetic, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Woven Nature Commissioned Work, Towada Hotel Entrance Hall, Akita Prefecture -
1999
Three Woven Balls Commissioned, Tuyama Art Festival
Artist in Residence, Imadate Exhibition of Contemporary Paper Art Works, Fukui Prefecture
The Japanese Aesthetic, Duane Reed Gallery, Saint Louis, MO
International Contemporary Basketmaking, Craft Council, London -
2000
Season of Camellia, Sakura City Museum of Art
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2001
Formals and Contrasts, Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
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2003
Bamboo in Old Japan, Zurich University Folk Art Museum
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2005
Weavers of Wonder, Naples Museum, FL
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2006
Power & Delicacy: Master Works of Japanese Bamboo Art, TAI Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Hin: The Quiet Beauty of Japanese Art, Grinnell College, IA and Chicago Cultural Center, IL
Exhibited at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA -
2007
Masters of Bamboo, San Francisco Asian Art Museum, CA
Solo Exhibition, TAI Gallery, Santa Fe, NM -
2008
New Bamboo:Contemporary Japanese Masters, Japan Society, New York, NY
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2009
Intertwined:Contemporary Baskets from the Sara and David Lieberman Collection, the New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
Many Shapes of Bamboo III, Oita Prefectural Art Museum, Oita -
2010
Intertwined:Contemporary Baskets from the Sara and David Lieberman Collection, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
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2011
Commissioned Artist for Exhibition, Basketry, Sainsbury Center for Visual Arts, Norwich
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2012
Artist in Residence at Bambouseraie de Prafrance, Générargues
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2013
John Muir International Artist Residency, Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland
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2014
Installation at First Learning Center, Cheekwood Botanical Garden, Nashville, TN
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2015
Installation at Metropolitan Museum, Manila
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2016
Bamboo Tradition in Contemporary Form, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
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2017
Commissioned work for the headquarters of the Pritzker Organization, Chicago, IL
Museum Collections
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Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA