I started to create engraving illustration in my student days being influence by wooden engravings by Ken Tagawa (1906-1967). He was a graphic artist living in Nagasaki and drew tasteful landscapes such as Nagasaki Glover Garden, stone-paved slope and the chimney of European style house. While I lived in Kyoto, I was moved by the good old scenery of the town of Kyoto and started the series of “Kyoto Scenery” which I still have a lot of request to this day. I feel that expressing Japanese scenery with wooden engraving is the journey to find my own root.