When I was working for a company as a product planner, an antique jewelry shop opened in a department store next to my office. I met European antique jewelry there first in my life and was perfectly fascinated. 
I started collecting jewelry but soon I held a dream to make it by myself. I quit the company and entered a jewelry craft school where I took a training of the basic jewelry crafting with young classmates. 
I was 48 years old. Everybody around me said it was too late but I didn't think so because I had a dream and passion. 
During and after the school I got several prizes of jewelry competitions. 
After a while I found another passion. Japanese traditional metal works. 
They are made by different alloys, different patinas, and of course different tools. But I don't want to duplicate the traditional styles as they were. I'm an artist. I combine my two passions, western and eastern tradition, and try to create my own style that might look somehow eastern but somehow western.

Awards
2003            Pearl Design Contest : Grand Prix
2004            Crescent Vert Jewelry Design Contest : Design drawing prize
                    JJA Japan Jewelry Design Awards 2004 : 2nd prize : Japan Jewelry Association
2005-2010  Solo Exhibition “Passe Compose” in Ginza
2006            JJDA Japan Art Jewelry Exhibition : "Accepted" Japan Jewelry Designers Association
2008            JJDA Japan Art Jewelry Exhibition : "Accepted"
                    JJA Japan Jewelry Design Awards 2008 : Party scene "Accepted"
2010            JJA Japan Jewelry Design Awards 2010 : Party scene "Accepted"
2010-2011   Exhibited in Hakone Lalique Museum 
2013            SNAG's Contemporary Goldsmithing: Tradition and Excellence "Accepted" 
                    Society of North American Goldsmiths

Publications
Japan
"Four Seasons of Jewelry 2005" CMP Japan
"Original Jewelry Japan vol.4 2006" Matsubara-Kashiwa Books Inc.
"Tokyo Jewelers No.46 2006"  Matsubara-Kashiwa Books Inc
"Tokyo Jewelers No.47 2007"  Matsubara-Kashiwa Books Inc.
"Tokyo Jewelers No.54 2008"  Matsubara-Kashiwa Books Inc.
"125 jewelry artists in Japan" 2009 ART BOX international INC.


United States
"Art Jewelry Magazine January 2014" Kalmbach Publishing Co.,
"Art Jewelry Magazine March 2016" Kalmbach Publishing Co.,

"Such Capable Hands" 2012 by Pat Robinson Schmidt, Orange Hat Publishing
"Showcase 500 art necklace" 2013 LARK JEWELRY & BEADING