Diplomat of media art, college of arts at Tokyo Polytechnic University. Established his own style of photography by taking landscapes and personality in miniature figure by 4 x 5 camera. Received 32nd Ihei Kimura prize with "small planet".

1978	Born in Tokyo, Japan
2002	B.A. Tokyo Polytechnic University, Department of Photography
2004	MFA, Tokyo Polytechnic University Graduate School of Arts, Media Art Course

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2020	(un)real utopia, Ichihara Lakeside Museum , Chiba
2019	small planet, Nihombashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo
2016	tokyo, CANON GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2015	plastic nature, nap gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2013	SHINKIROU, Yokkaichi Municipal Museum, Yokkaichi, Japan p, America-Bashi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2012	diorama, SHADAI Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2011	light house Skåne, nap gallery, Tokyo, Japan Light House Tokyo, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2009	Scripted Las Vegas, epSITE, Tokyo, Japan Scripted Las Vegas, Mitsubishi-Jisho ARTIUM, Fukuoka, Japan
2007	Small Planet, TAI Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2006	Play Room, Mito contemporary art center/Art Tower Mito Criterium, Mito, Japan

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019	#005 PHOTO Playground - Playground -, Ginza Sony Park GL, Tokyo
2018	Merci Summer, nap galery, Tokyo
2015	A Bird’s-eye View of the World, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
2012	Waiting for the First Train, TOKYO STATION GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2011	Café in Mito 2011–Relationships in Color–, ART TOWER MITO, Mito, Japan
2009	Visual Deception, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
2008	Reality Check: Truth and Illusion in Contemporary Photography, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA Faithful Documents–Japanese Contemporary Photography, Aki Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2007	Osaka Art Kaleidoscope, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan

Award

2006	The 32nd The Kimura Ihei Commemorative Photography Award, Japan

Publications

2016	TOKYO, Little More, Japan KYOTO, TANKOSHA, Japan
2013	SHINKIROU, Little More, Japan
2010	Treasure Box, Kodansha Ltd. Japan
2006	Small Planet, Little More, Japan

Public Collections

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA

Yokkaichi Municipal Museum, Yokkaichi, Japan

Tokyo Polytechnic University, Tokyo, Japan

Top Museum, Tokyo, Japan