1976 Born in Gunma, Japan
Education
1999 Studied under Iizuka Shokansai
Exhibitions & Accolades
2002 Admitted to the 42nd Eastern Japan Traditional Craft Arts Exhibition (thereafter admitted many times)
2003 Winner of the Encouragement Award at the 50th Japan Traditional Craft Arts Exhibition (thereafter admitted many times)
2005 Admitted to the 10th Japan Traditional Craft Arts Wood and Bamboo Exhibition (thereafter admitted again)
2006 Received the Tokyo Board of Education Member’s Award at the 46th Eastern Japan Traditional Craft Arts Exhibition
Became a full member of The Japan Traditional Craft Arts Association
2008 New Bamboo: Contemporary Japanese Masters, Japan Society, New York City, NY
2009 Many Shapes of Bamboo III, Oita Prefectural Art Museum
Received the Member’s Award at the 12th Japan Traditional Craft Arts Wood and Bamboo Exhibition
2010 Different Sensitivity: Women in Bamboo Art, TAI Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Winner of Hokkaido Governor’s Prize at the 50th Eastern Japan Traditional Craft Arts Exhibition
2013 Winner of Kawatoku Prize at the 53rd Eastern Japan Traditional Craft Arts Exhibition
2014 Masterpieces of Bamboo Art in Tochigi, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan
2017 Masterpieces of Japanese Bamboo Art, TAI Modern at Joan B Mirviss LTD, New York, NY
2020 Masterpieces of Bamboo Art: Katsushiro Soho and Fujinuma Noboru, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan
Museum Collections
David Woods Kemper Memorial Foundation, Kansas City, MO
