Raised in Japan and now based in Canada, my practice is shaped by Japanese cultural traditions and everyday forms of care.

My practice began with kimono and the art of dressing — not simply as a Japanese cultural tradition, but as a “special time” in my childhood. My grandmother made summer kimono for my sister and me, and my mother often dressed us for New Year celebrations and summer festivals.

While studying in Kyoto, these sensibilities became part of my daily life: the way a city could be arranged with intention, and the way beauty could exist quietly in ordinary moments. Living in Kyoto affected and shaped my sense of beauty.

In Victoria, after Covid, I desperately wanted to connect with my home country. It was the first time I realized that I would not be able to go back easily.

Tea ceremony, ikebana, mending, and participatory art each became a way of carrying and deepening that same sensibility in a different context.

I built my life in Victoria through the practice of Western medicinal herbs, combined with my background in Japanese nutrition science. It felt natural to me to combine Japanese food therapy with Western herbs.

As I became more rooted in my community, these practices became not an expression of nostalgia, but a living practice that I could introduce and share here in Victoria.

For a long time, these practices seemed separate. It was only through working more deeply with each of them that I began to see their shared roots — an attention to relationship, atmosphere, and the subtle exchanges that exist between people, objects, and space.

Rather than focusing on objects themselves, my work explores how value changes through perception, context, care, and relationship. A repaired garment, a bowl of tea, wild herbs, or the arrangement of a space — each becomes a way of reconsidering what already exists.

I do not offer answers or finished forms. What I offer is a way of seeing — the possibility that value, meaning, and connection are not fixed, but continuously shaped through relationship, attention, and the choice to look again.