Japanese-style painter, born in Niigata Prefecture. After middle school he moved to Tokyo determined to become a painter and entered the household of the oil painter Gazan Ishikawa as a live-in pupil; in 1938 his work was selected for the twenty-fifth Kofukai exhibition, but the following year, on Gazan’s advice, he turned to Japanese painting and studied at the Kawabata Painting School. That year his work was selected for the Inten, and in 1940 for the Seiryusha exhibition; he was then called up, and after the war was interned in Siberia, returning to Japan in 1950. He then won prizes repeatedly, chiefly at the Seiryusha, and produced one bold large work after another, using much black and unbound by the frame of Japanese painting as it had been. In 1962 he left the Seiryusha. From 1965 he taught in the Japanese painting course of Tama Art University with Matazo Kayama (professor from 1966). Showing large, bold works in succession, he left a distinctive track in the pursuit of a renewed Japanese painting after the war.