Plunging headlong into his new field, he entered the New York Institute of Photography and then after graduation joined Midori Inc., a famous food photo studio in New York, where he worked for three years before deciding to take his experience to Japan and become a forerunner there in the field of professional food photography.
他一頭栽進這個新領域，進入紐約攝影研究所就讀，畢業後進紐約著名的食物專門攝影公司 Midori Inc. 工作三年，然後決定把專業食品攝影帶回日本，成為這方面的先驅。