Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts with a major in Japanese Painting (Japanese-style Painting/Nihonga) in 2006. D. degree in 2011.Received the Emerald Grant Award (Tokyo National University of the Arts) in 2014.
Highly regarded both within and outside Japan for her development of new ways of expression using traditional Japanese painting techniques incorporating mineral pigments and metal leaf.

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