Born in Japan, he came to the United States in 1981 and devleoped a style of abstract painting that merged eastern and western cultures. He sought to maintain Japanese aesthetics while embracing modernism, particularly Abstract Expressionism. Many of his works are abstract landscapes.His paintings are in the collections of Bergen Museum of Art & Science, NJ, Muscarelle Museum of Art, VA, and Museo de Arte Contemporanea, Madeira, Portugal, to name a few, and have appeared in television programs. A number of his images were selected by UNICEF for publication in Europe in 1995 and 1997. In 1997, The Bergen Museum held the first retrospective of his inspirational work.