祖父は益子焼の販売店を営み、父の代から作陶しています。

私は益子の伝統的な材料・技法を使ってどのような表現をするか、また手に馴染み、毎日使ってもらえるような工夫を考えています。

自分がいなくなった後も、誰かが気に入って使っていく、手を抜かずに作られたもの。生活や文化の移ろう中でも普遍的な、今の時代にしか生まれえない伝統の在り方を模索しています。

My grandfather runs a Mashiko-ware shop and has been making pottery since my father's generation.

I try to express Mashiko's traditional materials and techniques in pieces that are comfortable in the hand and can be used every day.

I am trying to create something made without cutting corners, something that someone else will like and use even after I am gone. I am searching for a way of being that is universal, even in the midst of changing lifestyles and cultures, a tradition that can only be born in this day and era.