Born in Saga Prefecture, Japan, 1961. BA and MA, Art History, Keio University. PhD. for the Study of Taro Okamoto, Teikyo University.　 Majored in art history of exchanges between the East and the West.
1992-2001, Director of Museum Division, Arita Porcelain Park. 1999-2000, Visiting Keeper of the Department of Japanese Antiquity, the British Museum. 2001, Visiting Scholar, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University. 2004-2021, Curator of Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki (TOMAK).
Mainly organized exhibitions: “Old Imari from the Dresden National Museum”, Museum Division of Arita Porcelain Park, 1993. “KITAOOJI Rosanjin and the Okamotos”, TOMAK, Kawasaki, 2005. “Taro Okamoto: Le Chamanisme”, TOMAK, 2013. “Isamu Noguchi and Taro Okamoto”, TOMAK, 2018. “Kurt Seligmann and Taro Okamoto”, TOMAK, 2020. Etc.
Main publications: The Kadokawa Dictionary of Japanese Ceramics, Co-editor, Author, Kadokawa Shoten Publishing, Tokyo, 2002. Taro Okamoto -Life and Works, Tokyo Bijutsu, Tokyo, 2013.