Here will be my last platform for showing and selling my handwork.

My journey of crafting started when I was 11 years old. I made my dress using my cousin's discarded clothes. Later, I experienced working at a custom tailoring/dressmaking studio in Japan.

In October 1998, I lost my most important person. I tried to recover myself and found a stained glass school in my town in Japan. The beauty of the sunlight filtering through the stained glass window surpassed the description. That was not just gorgeous like the window of the church, but it had a modest beauty to let me feel quiet.
I threw myself into stained glass work since then. And I established my studio in Auckland, New Zealand. I dedicated myself to stained glass art for over 20 years.

When I made a large stained glass butterfly, I wanted to make a wooden frame like a pinned butterfly on a board. So, I needed to get woodworking skills. Fortunately, I found a great English furniture maker online who taught me how to sharpen the tools first. I knew how important it was. He is like my father, who makes furniture beautifully and precisely.

About a year after starting to study woodworking, my father passed away, and I inherited all his Japanese woodworking hand tools and sharpening stones.

I became confident in sharpening tools and made furniture in my tiny "stained glass studio" with traditional joinery. But I have not yet made a frame for displaying my glass butterfly.

Someday, when I polish my woodworking skills more, I will make the best one for the fragile butterfly.
Until then, I am here to sell my handwork to someone who knows the difference between handcraft and factory/machine-made.

Thank you for reading. I appreciate your interest in my work.