"I have loved drawing since I was little, and I used to draw with pencils and colored pencils as a hobby. When I was in high school, I experienced oil painting for the first time in an art class and thought, 'How fun it is.' I think the nature of being able to redraw as many times as you want while the paint has not hardened suited me. So I tried to aspire to become an art major, but I gave up once for various reasons. From there there was a long blank, and the next time I started painting firmly was at the age of 46, 6 years ago."  

"My daughter was going to do acrylic painting in an art class in junior high school, and there was acrylic paint spread out in the house. When she was out, I suddenly thought of it and tried to draw it with the acrylic paint on a piece of cardboard that was lying nearby. Then it was fun. There was a long blank, but the old feeling remained, and the brush progressed without hesitation."  

"Yes, then I gathered my own art supplies and started working in earnest, and after uploading my work to Instagram, I was thankfully regularly asked to exhibit at exhibitions and be published in art magazines. So my motivation to draw never stops."

"The motifs themselves are not very consistent, such as people, animals, plants, and Buddhist paintings, but what I am particular about is that I want to draw things that cannot be expressed in photographs. I draw objects that are real, but I value a worldview that is not real as a whole.  
　
It doesn't usually look like that when I draw while looking at the real thing or a photo, so in my case, I decide what I want to draw, search for the image, and observe it carefully for about 10 minutes. After that, all I have to do is output the image in my head and proceed with the production."  

"I am quite confused every time I decide on a motif. Rather than a special scene, you may often be inspired by everyday things such as the sounds of the countryside, the smells of the seasons, or when you look up at the moon in the night sky.  
　
I once wondered if I should be more consistent in what I draw. However, in my case, I feel like I will never get bored and draw. When I start working, I don't always have an image of the work in my head before drawing, but I often just decide to draw this for the time being, and then add what I need later. I think it's because the desire to "draw" precedes it. I am now convinced that 'drawing what I want to draw' is my style."  

"What many of my works have in common is that the background is black, and I think that is one of the major elements that create a mysterious and fantastic atmosphere. I do this because a black base is easier to create depth and transparency than if I started with a white canvas.  
　
The art materials are acrylic and oil paint, and this smooth, black base is acrylic paint. I talked about how I felt that oil paint suited my nature, but acrylic paint has its own advantages, such as erasing unevenness in oil paint, so I experiment and use it differently depending on the purpose."

"One is a work called 'Ancient Forest,' where I depicted a group of megaliths like Stonehenge against the backdrop of a starry sky with a huge moon. I was inspired by the cover of a singer's album, but the moon was added by myself later. I was thinking while drawing, "I wonder if the moon looked like this from the old earth."  
The other is a work called "Moonlight Bodhisattva," which was exhibited at the 2024 Horyuji Art Festival. I myself sometimes paint Buddhist paintings because my parents' house is a temple. The theme of this year's Horyuji Art Festival was "Honoring with Harmony", and this depicted Buddha has a sad and painful expression. In my own way, when I thought about the meaning of depicting "precious with harmony" in this era, I honestly thought that the Buddha would never be happy with this world. Conflicts are constant, and the gap between the rich and the poor does not narrow. I put the earnest thought that 'the world will not get better even if you only look at the top' into the work."