Awards:
1984 Entry to All Hokkaidô Ceramic Exhibition (thereafter every year until '00)
1987 Award, All Hokkaido Crafts Exhibition
1988 Awarded Hokkaido Newspaper Prize, Japan Ceramic Exhibition: New Works (also in '95 and ‘05)
1998 Awarded Judge Special Prize, the 3rd Mashiko Ceramics Competition,Tochigi (also in '00)
2000 Entry to the Crafts Competition, Takaoka
Judge Special Prize, Mashiko Ceramic Exhibition
2003 Join Japan Craft member
2005 East Japan Area Prize, 45th Traditional Art Crafts New Work Competition
Silver Prize, The 3rd The Contemporary Tea Ceramics Exhibition
Solo exhibitions:
1991 Daidô Gallery, Sapporo (also in '93, '94, and '96-'00)
1994 Aterier M, Hino (also in '96, 98, '00, '02)
2001 Gallery Kôgei Murata, Ginza, Tokyo
2002 Tokyo American Club, Tokyo
2003 Nakamura Bijutsu Salon, Shimodate (also in ’05, ’08)
2004 Inui Gallery, Akasaka, Tokyo
2005 Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Art Gallery, Tokyo
2006 Marui Imai, Sapporo
2007 Raku Bidô Chatô, Yamagata
Group exhibitions:
1985
Japan Traditional Crafts Exhibition (also in '95, '02-'04)
Eastern Japan Traditional Crafts Exhibition (thereafter every year)
1986
Chûnichi International Ceramic Exhibition (also in '87)
1997
Five-artist exhibition, Tachikichi Gallery, Kyoto
1999
The 30th-year Anniversary of Hokkaidô Ceramic Art Association Exhibition, Hokkaidô
2000
Contemporary Tea Ceramics Exhibition
The 5th Silver-hawk Internet Exhibition, US
2002
Group exhibition of 6 local artists, Yûbari Municipal Museum, Hokkaidô
Mashiko Ceramics Exhibition, Mashiko, Tochigi (also in '04)
2003
Japan Ceramics Exhibition (also in ‘05)
Forms of Ceramics Exhibition, Ceramic Art Center, Ebetsu, Hokkaidô
2005
The First Kikuchi Biennale, Tokyo
2006
Cool & Sopshisticated: Contemporary Master Ceramists of Eastern Japan, Ibaraki
Ceramic Art Museum, Ibaraki
2007
Asahi Ceramics Exhibition
Chôsanshô Contemporary Ceramics Exhibition
US public collections:
New Orleans Museum of Art, LA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN
Reference:
"Ceramics of Traditional Crafts,"
Honohô Geijutsu. vol. 79. 2004.
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