Printmaker. Born into a merchant family in Nihonbashi, Tokyo. While at the Keio Futsubu school he learned copperplate technique at an etching studio, and in 1938 he entered the Tokyo Fine Arts School (now Tokyo University of the Arts). His work was accepted at the Shin-Bunten in 1941, and afterwards at the Japan Print Association and Shun’yokai exhibitions, of which he became a member. He won prizes at the first Sao Paulo Biennial and the Lugano international print exhibition among others, and founded the Japan Copperplate Engravers’ Association with Hamaguchi Yozo and Sekino Jun’ichiro. He held his first solo exhibition at the Shiseido Gallery in Ginza in 1953, and the following year went to study in Paris, entering the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. He is known for a visionary manner, and made many books of poems and prints, among them People Call It an Envoi. A Fleeting Vision and Tree are among his best-known works. In 1959 he became a professor at Tokyo University of the Arts, teaching copperplate engraving.