sentences:  After his graduation he worked as an architect for the Yokogawa Construction Company and began to take photographs, which he submitted to the publications and competitions of "Kenchiku gakkai" (the Society for Architectural Research).He was active in theatre circles as a costume and set designer and in 1926 he founded the "Ningyō-za" theatre in Tokyo with Koreya Senda (1904-1994) and others, and became involved with "Tan'i sanka", an avant-garde artists' group, where he met the Bauhaus student Sadanosuke Nakada (1888-1970), and where he later became friends with Takehiko Mizutani (1898-1969), the first Japanese student to study at the Bauhaus.He was formally introduced to Michiko Yamawaki (1910-2000), an heiress and the eldest daughter of a wealthy businessman, whom he married in 1928.