Born in 1968 in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. Currently based in Okinawa.
After working as an engineer in the two- and four-wheel automotive industries, he moved to Hokkaido in 2000, seeking a life more deeply connected with nature. His encounter with the Ezo red fox led him to begin his career as a photographer in 2002.
He is a self-taught photographer, learning from the lives of animals in the natural world. While his work initially focused on the wildlife of Hokkaido, his pursuit of the beauty of animals living in the wild has since expanded his photographic field worldwide.
He contributes his work to a wide range of media and is currently active with bases in Hokkaido and Okinawa.
Member of the Japan Professional Photographers Society (JPS).
As a child, I was physically small and timid, and I constantly admired those I believed to be strong.Not strength in terms of power or dominance, but the strength to endure and live, unshaken by anything.I loved fishing and spent most of my time playing along riverbanks.On my way home, soaked by rain and chilled by the wind, I would see wild birds flying freely through harsh weather, and stray cats enduring the cold as if in silent resolve.
Physical size did not matter.
In the severe natural environment, any life surviving with nothing but itself appeared profoundly strong and beautiful to me.By continuing to follow their presence, by placing myself as close to them as possible, I still photograph these lives today, hoping to grasp even a fragment of their resilience.For me, pursuing them through photography, no matter how closely an image may match what I envisioned, every photograph is something given by nature itself, by the lives of wild beings.Here, I offer my gratitude and tribute to the noble and beautiful lives of the wild.