He received a special award from the Yoshida Isoya Memorial Foundation for Promoting the Arts (Yoshida Isoya Kinen Geijutsu Shinko Zaidan) for the Echizen washi (paper made in the former Echizen province) he made for the 1982 'Showa no Daishuri' (literally, 'large scale repairs of the Showa period')' of Katsura Imperial Villa.
1982年桂離宮の「昭和の大修理」に使われた越前和紙を漉きあげ、吉田五十八記念芸術振興財団特別賞受賞。