Graduated from Osaka College of Music, Piano Course
Started patchwork quilt around 1980 by self-study.
Since then, I have held solo exhibitions every year in Tokyo, Japan, Eastern Europe, and Europe on the themes of the Silk Road and various cities’ light and shadow.
Aiming for contemporary expression, I create original designs from my inspirations.
At first, I used only Japanese jidaigire, but later I began to incorporate Indonesian, Indian, African, and European materials from the same era.
The depth, charm and beauty of those old textiles captures my heart.
In addition, I am grateful for the high spirituality of the people in the past who made them, and I am devoted to my craft every day.
Active as an international quilt instructor certified by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
1981 After the first solo exhibition
Omotesando, Aoyama, Roppongi, Ikebukuro,
Seisekisakuragaoka, Osaka, Kanazawa, Nagano
Solo exhibitions in various places in Japan
1988 Roppongi Striped House Museum
“Silk Road” Exhibition
1990 At the International Exchange Exhibition, France, Switzerland,Czechoslovakia, Hungary
Traveling exhibition in Germany and other countries
Have held a solo exhibition every year since then
2013 Participated in Paris Japan Expo
240,000 visitors in 5 days
2018 “Machida Silk Road” Exhibition at Machida Pario [art gallery]
2019 Quilt Japan Exhibition
Contemporary Category Silver Award Winner
2020 “Red Memories” joint exhibition with Mayu Kuroiwa at Machida Pario
Jidaigire refers to old cloth from the late Edo period at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate to the Meiji, Taisho, and early Showa eras, and is a word created to distinguish this cloth from more ancient textiles.
These textiles are made of silk, cotton, hemp, bashofu (woven cloth made from the fibers of the Japanese banana plant) (also known as “primitive cloth”), kudzu-fu (cloth made of fiber taken from the kudzu plant and woven by hand), and wisteria cloth.
Jidaigire also includes Indian, Indonesian, African and European materials from the same era.
They are beautiful materials that still shine through the ages.
A quilt usually means a bed cover made of two layers of fabric with a layer of padding (wadding) in between, held together by lines of stitching.
Although closely linked to quilting, patchwork is a different needlework technique, with its own distinct history. Patchwork or “pierced work” involves sewing together pieces of fabric to form a flat design. An array of stitches is passed through all layers of the fabric to create a three-dimensional padded surface.
These techniques originated in Europe at a time when it was difficult to obtain even a single piece of cloth, so pieces of already worn clothes were often used. I reuse those parts in my work.
Patchwork quilting has gradually been elevated to an artistic craft, and now it is loved by people all over the world and has become part of everyone’s everyday life.
