I believe that everyone has their own treasures in their hearts, such as memorable landscapes and moving scenes that remain burned into my eyelids that cannot be forgotten. The tree-lined streets of Harbin, the ones I used to pass in secondary school, and the surrounding forests hold the deepest memories for me. Images of the beautiful natural grooves on trees folded on top of each other, each one with a different expression, still haunts my mind and expands my creative world. This is just one example, but looking back on my life as a craftsman, it is my greatest happiness to be able to create pieces based on things that I find beautiful and that move me emotionally.

　　'What inspired you to pursue a career in manufacturing?' From time to time, I was asked this question. It all started when I enrolled in the metal engraving department of the Tokyo Fine Arts School (now Tokyo University of Arts). Since childhood I loved drawing and painting, and although I had the desire to study at an art school, I had no special attachment to metal engraving itself. I chose the engraving department only because it had fewer students than other departments and I was attracted by the environment in which I could receive the almost one-to-one instruction. At the time when I was enrolled in the department of engraving, food, clothing and shelter were scarce and the world was culturally very poor. It was in this context that I became fascinated by the art of metal engraving. I sought the continuity of the technique of metal engraving in the field of jewellery, and began to dream and challenge myself in this unknown world.  

　　In 1994, the Art Jewellery exhibition was organised by four artists with a strong artistic flair. The exhibition was a catalyst for the establishment of a new field of jewellery with a strong artistic quality in a jewellery market that was still in a rut. One of the four artists who exhibited was Berned Moonsteiner, who created unique gemstone design cuts in Eder-Oberstein, Germany. He says that his unprecedented creation of cuts on the back of gemstones was sometimes described as wicked or crazy. However, I felt a strong sense of empathy with Mr Moonsteiner's creative attitude, as he earnestly pursued what he really liked and what he felt was beautiful. Even now, I still feel that it is essential for people who pursue beauty to be somewhat unusual, in a good sense of the word, and to have ideas that no one else has come up with.  

　　For a very long time I have worked late at night and in the morning. Jewellery design is a lonely job. It is lonely, but it is not painful. Because when everyone is dreaming, I am giving shape to their dreams. For me, my dream is to create something important: jewellery. When I move my hands, like the fission of an atom, things come to me one after another, and I want to try them immediately. When I rest my hand, I look out of the window and see the quiet morning dawning. The beautiful Japanese seasons, memorable journeys and nostalgic Japanese songs come to mind again.