I was born on October 20th in 1940, in Kochi, Japan. I began to draw a picture when I was five years old. I stayed in Nagasaki till I graduated from the high school and entered English Literature Department of Doshisha University in Kyoto. I graduated from it in 1965, and got a job as an English teacher of Osaka municipal high school. In 2000, I retired from the job and became free. After the retirement I have enough free time to draw or paint till today. I used to paint abstract, but now concrete (landscape) mainly. I've...more