Photo by : Karin Shikata

2016年夏より、ドイツ・ベルリンにお引越ししました。
2012年京都造形芸術大学キャラクターデザイン学科卒業後、同大学マンガ学科研究室にて副手として3年間勤務。
2018年より、フリーランスに。独自の色使いで、世界観を絵と文章で表現することが得意です。

I’m from Japan and based in Berlin ・Germany since the summer of 2016.
I studied character design ( Illustration /Animation ) at  Kyoto University of Art and Design (JP).
After graduating, I worked for 3 years as an assistant to the manga department of  Kyoto University of Art and Design (JP).
Since 2018 I work as a freelance. I loves using unique color palettes to express my perception of the world.

交通機関が何もない、一番近いお店まで父の車で1時間。
とにかく、私の故郷は自然が美しい、とても小さな村です。
子供の頃、真っ白の紙とカラフルなペンと頭の中の空想世界で無限に遊ぶことは最高の贅沢で、いちばんの楽しみでした。

残念ながら、私たちの村には中学までしか通える距離になかったので、15歳のときに高校進学のため実家から旅立ちました。
15歳から自立しなければならなかった私にとって、絵を描くことは心の支えとなりました。

例えば、私のように小さい集落で暮らしている子が、そこから旅立つ時期を迎えたときに、
『世界はこんなにも広くて、こんなにも選択肢があるんだ』って気づけるようなものを残していけたら、最高だなと思いながら絵と文章をかいています。

We don’t have any transportation , one hour drive to the nearest store by my father’s car.
Anyway, my home town is really small village with really beautiful nature.
When I was a child, it was a great entertainment to play endlessly with paper, color pens and fantasy world of my head.
When I was 15 years old, I left from my parents’ home because I have to go to high school.
Our village have unfortunately only elementary school and junior high school.
I had to be independent from 15 years old and
drawing illustration with fantasy world of my head became moral support for me.

For example when children who living in a small village like  me will start to Journey of life from there ,
I’d like to leave something to make them realize that “the world is how big and there are so many choices” by my illustrations.

 

Tandem App – interview

English ▶︎TANDEM TALES : FROM LANGUAGE EXCHANGE TO ART EXHIBITION
Japanese▶︎TANDEM TALES : FROM LANGUAGE EXCHANGE TO ART EXHIBITION

世界ウェブ記事大賞2019 /ライツ社賞 (副賞として2020年春にライツ社書籍出版に参加が決定）
World Web Article Award 2019 ( Japan ) / writes publisher prize ( As a supplementary prize, my essay join a book and will be published 2020 in Japan. )

京都造形芸術大学卒業制作展2012 / キャラクターデザイン学科　学科賞
Kyoto University of Art and Design Graduation show 2012 / Character design department Outstanding Student Award

Young Germany  /  Client : Embassy of Germany (Tokyo,Japan)  / since 2017.07

Official web magazine of Embassy of Germany in Tokyo.
2019.05 -New column started “Berlin life as an Illustrator.”

veggy /  Client : kirasienne Inc. (Tokyo,Japan) / since 2019.01

The only one vegetarian magazine in Japan.
This magazine is attracting the most attention for category of Sustainable in Japan now.
My column’s the title is “KiKi’s Sustainable life”. 🌱🌏
I’m writing about vegan and sustainable culture in Berlin or other Europa countries.
This magazine is selling in the book store all over Japan and Amazon jp.

おうちごはんラボ  / Client : NORITZ CORPORATION ( Kobe,Japan) / since 2018.10

Magazine about home cooking by NORITZ CORPORATION.
I’m writing about Journey abroad,meet people and learn how to home cooking from people who I met there.
I wrote : Germany ・Austria ・Ecuador ・Estonia・Belgium