After graduating from the Faculty of Letters, Doshisha University, he became the chief editor of 'Ikebana geijutsu' (art of flower arrangement) in 1949 and, along with Hiroshi TESHIGAWARA and so on, started to seek a new direction in ikebana (flower arrangement) on a cross-school basis.
同志社大学文学部卒業後、1949年「いけばな芸術」の編集長となり、勅使河原宏らとともに、流派を超えた新しいいけばなの方向を模索し始めた。