I'm Japanese with six dreadlocks. I was born in an architectural household. As a kid, I used to play a lot in the forest. After living in London and New York, I am currently a Tokyo-based hair stylist.

I have loved fashion ever since I was a kid. When I was in high school, I saw the staff from the hair salon that I often visited in a club having a good time. Seeing their cool style and seeing them just being themselves (having fun) inspired me to be a hairdresser like them.
After I graduated from school, I worked in a hair salon in Tokyo but I resigned within 6 months. During that time, the manager of the salon showed me Vogue Italia and introduced me to hair stylists, along with the passion they bring to this world. He told me I should be one and that’s how it all began. After that, I worked as an assistant and got to work for Junya Watanabe's Comme des Garçons Paris collection within a month – which pulled me towards the fashion world.
After exactly 20 years this year, I did the hair direction for this year’s Tao Comme des Garçons show.

After working as an assistant for 3 years in Tokyo, I went to London in 2006 and worked a lot on creative editorials. Then in 2012, I moved to New York. I was represented by See Management and mainly worked for commercial ads. In 2016, I moved back to Tokyo. My experience abroad has definitely recreated my approach to my artistry/craftsmanship. I am also actively working on my personal art unrelated to hair styling which I believe has a tremendous influence on my growth as an artist.

Ever since I was a child, there were traditional tribal masks in my parents’ house. If you look at the front of a face – the hair takes up a really small space compared to the faces. I am not sure if it is the reason but sometimes, I have this urge to cover the model’s face with their hair. I always create the hair styling in three dimensions, the makeup in two dimensions and the mask is also three-dimensional.
The feeling of creating a mask – starting the design from the neck to the upper part, is probably a natural way of doing it.
I love creating in a three-dimensional form – I think somehow there is a connection between creating three-dimensional work with architecture.

The only reason is: my 6-year-old son loves Mickey Mouse. Last year, I had an exhibition of tribal masks from around the world with similar concept, Destruction and Recreation. The absolute difference with the usual photoshoots that I work at is that the visitors who love my work were able to have this sense of ownership.
I do exhibitions because especially here in Japan, there is a negative impression when it comes to reaching out to something you are not professionally inclined to – I think that certain approaches are inadequate and wrong. So I don’t think I will limit myself to only having exhibitions of hair styling and head-pieces.
Most job offers I receive are for hair styling – it can be unexciting sometimes. I wish to have more non-genre-specific job offers here in Japan. Even through my latest exhibition, I got a lot of acknowledgements from non-Japanese people. I would appreciate it if you can check my work from my latest exhibition here.

There is a complete difference – my exhibitions and personal work were all done just by myself.

Idol groups are part of Japanese culture – I find it very amusing to work with them. Mainly because they have a very different perspective. Maybe there is this mysterious chemistry, making us compatible with each other.

When staying at home during the start of Covid, I was making art with emojis. At first, I made it by using the top models’ and actresses’ faces. Beyondy is a series made from the visions that I have when I meditate, it also comes from the emoji ����‍♂️ itself.

I am actually bad with computers since I am very old school. While thinking about the virtual world that has been going on lately, I made an NFT out of curiosity – thinking about what I could do, I was already making art with emojis, so I did research about NFTs and eventually started doing it by trial-and-error. My emojis are very handmade. What I like about digital is I can play with my iPad whenever, wherever I can.

Land art, pottery, bonsai, interior design.

My architect father, trees and plants, my London life, psychedelic culture, and my nature walks.

I will create a series of enormous tribal masks and have an exhibition titled Beyondy. Hopefully, I will bring all the series with me and have an exhibition outside Japan. To all the people from around the world whose reading this – I will be waiting for your DMs! Let us collaborate and create something together.