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, multiplicity, gender, queerness, and poetics. In recent practice, 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 centering on care and respect for family and friends in Japan and 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, emphasise the exclusive characteristics of Kabuki which is a Japanese traditional theatre performance strictly all rolled performed by males. In contrast, Takarazuka Revu is also a Japanese traditional theatre performance in which all roles are performed by only females, which again, requires females to have certain looks and heights to be able to act as male figures.

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The sly, cunning, and mysterious fox, also known as a “shape-shifter” and revenge taker in Japanese mythology and folklore, as well as Yokai (Japanese monster), plays a core part in my practice.

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

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 essentialize, my experience in the West has witnessed a manifestation of fear of nature that absolutizes the subject, while in Japan people tend to co-exist with nature and relativizes it. Hostility does not factor into this equation. 

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.