She was born on August 6, 1918 in Nagano Prefecture and studied tanka and shodo in Japan. She moved to Quebec in 1987 and was the instructor of a tanka study group in Montreal in the 1990s and a long-time member of the ASUKA tanka group now dissolved. She was also the founder and selector of group members for the tanka group, FUBI and also made selections of tanka for the Bulletin Kadan, a readers column on tanka for the Japanese community paper, the Montreal Bulletin.