After studying music at Toho Girls' High School, graduated from Toho Gakuen College Music Department. Studied violin under Tomoyasu So, Ryosaku Kubota, and Takeaki Sumi. Switched to viola. Joined the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra as a viola player.
In 1990, he moved to Germany and entered the graduate course at the Stuttgart State University of Music. Studied under Hermann Voss, a viola player of the New Japan Philharmonic String Quartet and a professor at the same university.
In 2007, the duo album "Mother's gift" with guitarist Hiroyuki Enomoto was released on iTunes.