Born in Tokyo. After graduating from the Faculty of Letters, Waseda University, and Kuwasawa Design School's Visual Design Course, she joined Rikuyosha Co., Ltd., working as an editor of FG, an architectural and design specialty magazine. She is currently a freelance writer, working mainly in architecture, art and design categories. Co-authored "New Art Space Walks" (by Nitto Shoin Honsha) that introduced 54 Japanese art museums with must-see architecture. Was also the co-author of PEN Books "Yappari Sukida! Kusama Yayoi (I love her, after all, Kusama Yayoi)," "What is Renaissance?," "What is Christianity?," "The Impressionists: Revolutionists who changed painting," and "Dissecting all of da Vinci's Works." She also writes articles for magazines such as Pen, Casa Brutus, and Vogue Japan, as well as web magazine honeyee.com.