born: february 9, 1968 in marugame, kagawa, japan
moved: april 14, 1997 to vancouver, bc, canada
now: in surrey, bc, canada as canadian

1971-1986 classic violin with Itsuo Nagao, Zentsuji, Kagawa, Japan
1975-1986 classic piano by herself and with Itsuo Nagao, Zentsuji, Kagawa, Japan
1972-1973 japanese pencil calligraphy with Toshiaki Iwasaki, Marugame, Kagawa, Japan
1974-1980 japanese brush calligraphy with Toshiaki Iwasaki, Marugame, Kagawa, Japan
1980-1983 volley ball club (junior high)
1983-1986 oil painting (high school class & club)
1988-1998 En-Jp translation in literature (Babel Institute, Tokyo & Osaka, Japan)
1996-2000 kids book translation, En/Fr/Gr/It-Jp (Shinseken, Osaka & Itabashi Bolgna Book Fair, Tokyo, Japan)
1998-2000 Jewellery Art & Design at Vancouver Community College, Van, BC, Canada
2000-2003 Malaspina Printmakers Society and Dundarave Printworkshop & Gallery, Granville Island, Vancouver, BC, Canada - lithograph, etching, relief, monotype, etc.
2004 japanese wood printing with Noboru Sawai, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2003- mixed media monotype "yanchanikki, or my prank journal"

in childhood, read different bibles surrounded by pious people from different religions, loved the colorful, fantasy and myths, and music, left alone with meditation and imagination and playfulness to escape from REALITY, or to create her own reality. grew up to be an innocent child ever after. her childhood carries on and still her grand father who was a strict japanese shinto priest is her best man to be caught up and over by someone alike newly met (now, off the wall!!). may everything in universe enjoy and fulfil their life with love, peace and freedom and please the creator.