Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts (major in comparative aesthetics). Worked as a curator at the Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art from 1982 to 2018, and is involved in the planning and management of the museum as well as the planning and supervision of overseas art exhibitions that travel around Japan. In　2018, retired from the chief curator of the Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, and became the Chief Executive Curator and the Representative of the Art Curation, and is involved in the supervision, writing, and lecture of the invitation projects of overseas museum collections such as France. Specialties are comparative aesthetics and museology for art museum. Specialized fields include trends of Ecole de Paris and related artists, Leonard-Tsuguharu Foujita, and the history of European print. Has been a lecturer at Kumamoto University and Nagasaki University since 1987, and has been teaching in the curator qualification course at the Sojo University, Faculty of Fine Arts since 2020. Received the Medal with Dark Blue Ribbon in 2013.