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"I'm particular about image sharpness - it's a vital standard of image quality."
It was curiosity that drew me to photography. I took my very first photographs on a high school trip to Kyoto and Nara with an Olympus Wide bought for me by my father. This was back in the days of black-and-white photography, but I tried to make things more interesting by using red, orange and other color filters. I remember being struck at the time by how incredibly exotic a filter could make a scene look, quite unlike anything I'd taken before. To this day, my work is based on the fundamental idea that one can capture a world created in the mind that is even more interesting than the actual scene being photographed.
I always liked chemistry, so at university I majored in photographic printing and engineering, focusing on the chemistry involved. At the time, I had two burning ambitions: to become a specialist in the photographic field using my knowledge of chemistry, and - because of my love of classical music - to become a musician. As it turned out, I abandoned my dream of becoming a musician, but I think the desire to create art is an integral part of my photographic work.
After graduating from university, I worked for a time as an educational technician at a laboratory on campus. While I was there, I conducted research on the probability of photographs being blurred or out of focus at various aperture and shutter speed settings. I wrote a thesis on the subject entitled "A study of photographic sharpness." That's why I'm so particular about image sharpness - it's a vital standard of image quality.
Later on, through an introduction made by an acquaintance, I was hired by the publishing house Gakushu Kenkyusha (Gakken). While there, I developed a stereograph viewer for viewing photographs in 3D that was granted a patent in the United States. My job at the time mainly involved technical development, but in my free time I started taking photographs under the theme of "Yokohama in Time." From the photographs I took while working at the laboratory and at Gakken, I held a total of five one-man exhibitions.
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