In 1980, he graduated from Waseda University, and in 1982 began living in and photographing a Sherpa village in the Himalayas. Since his 1988 exhibition The Land of Sherpa, he has searched far and wide for the primordial connection between humans, nature and space, and a variety of other phenomena, releasing them in exhibitions and books. His works have been exhibited widely in Japan and abroad. The Icons of Time exhibition has previously been shown in 2016 at the Japan Foundation Gallery, Sydney, Australia as part of Art Month Sydney, in 2014 at The Shoto Museum of Arts, Tokyo and in 2013 at Mitsuo Aida Museum, Tokyo.