Born in 1996 in Nagoya, Japan, he began studying Education and Human Sciences at the University of Tsukuba in 2015.
At the heart of his artistic practice lies a fundamental question: What does it mean for us to be together? This question gradually took shape through his experiences of creating and living with people from different backgrounds, and at times finding it difficult to understand one another.
In 2017, he founded LES WORLD, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the vision of “Creating heartfelt connections beyond all boundaries.” Through LES WORLD, he began visiting orphanages and slum communities around the world, creating musicals and films together with children. Rather than offering one-sided support, he sought to create spaces where people from different cultures and circumstances could engage with one another through the act of creation. Over nine years, the organization has expanded its activities to 14 countries, working with 2,500 children and bringing together a total of 4,000 participants across its projects in Japan and abroad.
In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, he opened his home to friends who had nowhere to return to, beginning a life of shared living. Over time, the house became a place where people from across Japan gathered to share meals and everyday life. People with different family ties and personal histories came to live under one roof, gradually shaping a place together as their daily lives began to influence one another.
In 2023, the loss of his mother to suicide profoundly changed the way he understood his relationships with others. He came to confront the fact that, however deeply he cared for someone, he could neither fully understand them nor necessarily save them. Yet during that time, it was his friends, companions, and the people with whom he shared everyday life who stood by him. In opening his home to create a place for others, he came to realize that he, too, had been sustained by their presence, often without even knowing it. This experience became a central starting point for his artistic practice.
Alongside this shared life, he continued to develop participatory projects across Japan through LES WORLD, bringing together music, dance, dialogue, and communal living. One of these is the annual Nation-Building FES, where approximately 100 people live together for four days. Within an environment arranged by the artist, participants share their daily lives, respond to one another, and gradually form a temporary community. In works such as node, developed within this setting, the artist does not seek to direct a particular outcome. Instead, he creates the conditions in which unexpected relationships and events can emerge through the participants' own actions.
In 2023, he also began working on spatial design projects through planting and garden-making in public facilities. In 2024, he organized THE ONE, an international performing arts project that brought together 12 children from six countries across Asia and Africa, 50 Japanese performers, and a production team of 100, culminating in a performance attended by an audience of 1,100.
These experiences of living and creating with others gradually came to resonate with Édouard Glissant's Poetics of Relation, shaping the direction of his current artistic practice. Today, he creates site-specific installations that bring elements of shared everyday life into exhibition spaces, constructing conditions in which relations can emerge between people, objects, and places. Moving between everyday life and art, he continues to explore the possibilities of being together.
