I am a multi-disciplinary artist and researcher based in the UK.

My practice explores performance art, painting, outdoor installation, mask and costume making which I combine with the method of poetry, movements, martial arts, sound art, storytelling and mythology to create multimedia experiences.

My practice is a dialogue between politics, humanity, and poetics. I mostly focus on and explore the otherness of the Japanese diaspora in the West through personal experience, as well as the simultaneous otherness and prejudice directed at returnees in Japan.

The experience of life in the West as a Japanese female is an integral part of my work. Within this, traditional gestures and cultural rituals of various countries mirror my multicultural heritage and upbringing, as well as my interpersonal and emotive narratives. These relationships centring on care and respect for family and friends in Japan and in England are ongoing veins of research in my work, as a connection to the broader cultural past.

I also focus on the importance of notions of equality, inclusivity, and openness. I, therefore, emphasises the exclusive characteristics of Kabuki which is a Japanese traditional theatre performance strictly performed by males. For example, in my version of 'Fox Rain’ (2017), I questioned the exclusivity of Kabuki by creating a group performance referring to elements of Kabuki, but without sexual or racial boundaries. The choreography was also inspired by Butoh, a more modern (post-war) Japanese dance performance genre, to express each individual's grief and struggle.

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Shinto and Buddhist interpretations, the sanctification and spiritualization of objects are also part of Japan's great culture, a country where yokai (monsters), ghosts, and incarnations have long been familiar to the public.

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The desire to embody the fox and harness their capricious nature, has offered me a totemic methodology and vehicle to provoke people’s awareness towards socio-political issues, Whether the foxes are shallow or prudent, supportive or revengeful to humans, can never be answered— but their actions, remnants and traces of spirituality leave people to wonder. And it is through this space of doubt that I hope to explore lost narratives and relations between nature and humans, as well as the way of thinking about nature, Without wishing to essentialise, my experience in the West has witnessed a manifestation of fear of nature that absolutises the subject, while in Japan people tend to co-exist with nature and relativises it. Hostility does not factor into this equation. 

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I am therefore deeply interested in recreating the ‘foxes’ trickery’ (The Shapeshifter) by performing in the open air - most of my performances take place in nature with minimal additions of man-made objects. Restricted sites such as theatres, churches, or houses, are therefore avoided in my performance work.