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I paint both Shinto deities and Buddhist figures.

The divine realm and the Buddhist realm are not separate, but coexist as one structure.

It is through the presence of both that the world comes into being.

What I depict is the very system of that world.

 

I have pursued this path as a self-taught artist.

Rather than belonging to a particular school or tradition,

each image has emerged through direct engagement with the sacred.

 

In 2018, I experienced acute myeloid leukemia.

In that extreme period of life and death, the sacred was no longer an abstract belief,

but a tangible presence.

That experience became a turning point, leading to my present work of rendering the unseen world as structure.

 

The Takamagahara Trilogy presents the manifestation, discipline, and future of the divine realm as a visual cosmology.

The envisioned sanctuary stands upon two wings — sacred paintings of Shinto and Buddhist traditions.