Personal History
2004	Cultural Prize, Art Selection of Aichi Prefecture, Aichi
2002	Member, International Ceramics Academy Jury member, Beermaglankai 4, sponsored by the Sapporo City Art Foundation,Sapporo
2001	Jury member, Triennial in Nyon
1999	Begins work as part-time lecturer at Bunsei Art College
1997	Begins work as special part-time lecturer of the Special Study Course of Pottery, Seto Ceramics High-school
1974	Completed the Special Study Course of Ceramics, Seto Ceramics High School
1972	Graduated from Seto Ceramics High School
1953	Born in Seto, Aichi
Solo Exhibitions
2010	Yufuku, Tokyo
2010	Joan B. Mirviss, New York
2008	Yufuku, Tokyo
2005	Yufuku, Tokyo
2005	Gallery Tosai, Tokyo
2001	Gallery Kai, Tokyo Gallery Mozu, Osaka
2000	Gallery PLANNET, Nagoya Gallery Kurimoto, Nagoya Galerie Le Vienx-Bourg, Switzerland Tile Museum, Tokoname Gallery Enbu, Nagoya
1999	Yufuku, Tokyo Gallery Anri, Nagoya Meguro Pottey Hall, Yokkaichi
1998	Yufuku, Tokyo Oribe-tei Oh Enkyo, Ichinomiya Tosou-an, Nagoya Koraku-kama Gallery, Tokyo
1997	Kato-tei tono Kakawari, Nagoya Shirakura,Tokyo Dream, Fukuoka
1996	Gallery Fuu, Nagoya Love Collection Gallery, Nagoya
1995	Kappa's room,Seto
1993	Hoshino Book Shop Gallery, Nagoya
1992	Abanti, Tokyo
1991	One Two One, Nagoya Gallery m, Tokyo San Gallery Sumie, Nagoya
1990	Gallery IF, Tokyo Seto Culture Center, Seto JC Gallery,Tokyo
1989	Lobby of Ohara-ryu Hall 1F, Tokyo Kawatoku Diamond Hall, Morioka
1988	Atelier Nouveau, Tokyo Inui Gallery, Tokyo
1986	Maruzen, Sapporo, Tokyo, Nagoya, Kyoto and Fukuoka Fujiyoshi Gallery, Utsunomiya Seibu Department Store, Ikebukuro, Tokyo
1984	Gallery Akane, Nagoya Gallery Sancrayon,Nagoya
1983	Maruei Craft Gallery in Nagoya Gallery America, Tokyo Work Up, Niigata
Group Exhibitions
2010	Collect 2010 (Saatchi Gallery, London)
2009	Collect 2009 (Saatchi Gallery, London)
2008	Collect 2008 (V&A, London)
2006	Contemporary Claywork (Avant-garde et tradition du Japon), Muse National de Ceramique, Paris
2006	Contemporary Japanese Ceramics, New York Japan Society
2006	100 Years of the Seika of Japanese Ceramics, Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum
2004	The Seika of Seto Ceramic Art Exhibition, Seto Museum of Art
2003	World of Porcelain and Celadon, Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum, Ibaraki Challenging Design and Art, Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu
2002	Asia-Pacific Contemporary Ceramic Exhibition, Taipei Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan A Small Universe Exhibition, Ichinokura Sakazuki Museum, Nagano
2001	Invited at Triennale in Nyon Invited at Museum of Ibaraki Prefecture for "Yakimono of 21st Century" ,Japan Recommended to Japan Ceramic Exhibition
1999	Three-man Porcelain Exhibition, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York SOFA(Sculpture Object Functional Art), New York Exhibition of 100 Selected Japanese Contemporary Art of Crafts, Mitsukoshi Department Store, Etoile, Paris
1998	Beautiful, How Wonderful---Presentation of Glaze and Beauty of Pottery, Ceramic Forest of Shiga Prefecture
1997	One's Bowl Exhibition, Aichi Pottery and Porcelain Museum
1996	Rin---Beauty of Contemporary Pottery, Ceramic Forest of Shiga Prefecture Contemporary Pottery Exhibition of Tokai, Nagoya Seto Pottery and Porcelain Exhibition, Jingdezhen, China Presentation of Pottery---Development in the 1990s, National Modern Art Museum, Tokyo
1995	Pottery and Porcelain NET November Festival, Seto
1994	Invited to show at Asahi Contemporary Craft Exhibition, Tokyo and Osaka Exhibition of Selected Pottery and Porcelain Artists, Craft Center of Itami City
1992	Selected Exhibition of Japanese Six Old Pottery Places, Seto Culture Center
1991	Ceramic Annex Shigaraki'91, Modern Art Museum of Shiga Prefecture Modern Pottery for Tomorrow I, Furukawa Art Museum, Nagoya Clay---Message in Mino, Tajimi Culture Hall Minu Puru Exhibition, Ohara-ryu Hall Three-man Exhibition, Kaiseki Horie,Nagoya Young Pioneers---Pottery, Craft Center of Itami City
1990	Asahi Ceramic Exhibition touring in Australia
1989	Two-man Exhibition with Masahiro Shimizu, Daimaru Department Store, Kyoto
1988	Zui Exhibition, Electric Culture Hall, Nagoya(in 1990) Selected for an exhibition, Café Noir, Belgium
1987	Flower and Ceramic Art Exhibition, Meitetsu Department Store, Nagoya
1982	Two-man Exhibition of Pottery and Porcelain
1980	Exhibition of Ceramics Objects, Sakura Gallery, Nagoya
1979	Seto three-man Exhibition, Inui Gallery, Tokyo
Awards
2009	Paramita Museum Prize, Japan
1998	Grand Prix, Triennal de la Porcelain, Nyon, Switzerland Grand Prix, Mino Ceramic Festival
1997	Grand Prix and Katsura no Miya Prize, Japan Ceramic Exhibition
1992	Grand Prix, Asahi Ceramic Exhibition Bronze Medal, Mino Ceramic Festival
1991	Runner-up, Pottery Biennale
1989	Special Award, Pottery Biennale Excellent Work Prize, Asahi Ceramic Exhibition
1986	Grand Prix, Chunichi International Pottery Exhibition
1985	Special Prize, Asahi Contemporary Craft Exhibition Fine Work Prize, International Design Fair in Kanazawa
1982	Pottery Prize, Asahi Ceramic Exhibition
1980	Selected for Faenza International Pottery Exhibition
1979	Crand Prix, Chunichi International Pottery Exhibition Selected for Faenza International Pottery Exhibition Prize "79, Asahi Ceramic Exhibition Bronze Medal, Pottery and Porcelain Design Competition
1978	Incentive Award, Chunichi International Pottery Exhibition Selected for Faenza International Pottery Exhibition
Monuments
2004	Ceramic monument, "Togi" MURO project, Okayama Tsuyama Central Hospital
1997	Transom, "A Un(alpha and omega), for Touyasan-Jogen Temple of the Soto Sect Wall relief for Hotel Granpia, Kyoto
1995	Outdoor monument, "Fragrant Form", in Shimoyama Village,Aichi
1989	Ceramic monument, "Today---to Tomorrow", at Nagoya Castel for Design Exposition(Permanently installed in Seto Higashi Park afterward)
1983	Ceramic walls and decorative tiles for Okayama Culture Hotel
Public Collections
	Cincinnati Art Museum, OH Cleveland Art Museum, OH Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Japan Foundation Los Angeles County Museum of Art Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu Musée Nationale de Cèramique, Sèvres Musée Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN Seto City Art Museum, Seto Shiga Cultural Ceramic Park The National Gallery of Australia Tokoname City Victoria & Albert Museum, London Yale University Art Gallery