After winning the Japan Advertising Photographers' Association Award in 1965, he made his debut with a major publisher with the "Beatles Tokyo" photo collection in 1966. Not limited to photography, he has been involved in a wide range of activities, including movie production, art and literature, crafts, and music production.

Joined "Kaitei" in 1962. Worn the Kaitei Award in 1991, and the Gendai Haiku Association Award in 2014. Representative of the society”Kaigen”, Gendai Haiku Association consultant and vice-president of the Haiku International Association. His haiku collections include "Tamaranzaka" and "Aki no Tao", and his books "Conditions of Haiku" and "Tota Kaneko."

His debut novel "No Life King" was a candidate for the Mishima Yukio Prize in 1988. A creator active across a wide spectrum, including as an actors, author, celebrity, lyricist, rapper and gardener.

A Kyorin University Facility of Foreign Studies professor, and former researcher at Harvard University. He also often appears on TV, including "The Lessons you Most Want to Take in the World," introducing content relating to language in an easy to understand way. His grandfather was the linguist Kyosuke Kindaichi, and his father was the Japanese language scholar Haruhiko Kindaichi.

She started writing haiku when she entered the National High School Haiku Contest during her high school years. She received the 1st Fukio Shiba Haiku Newcomer Award Toshinori Tsubouchi Encouragement Award and the 11th Nobuko Katsura Award. She is the executive director of the Modern Haiku Association of Japan, selects haiku for the Nihon Keizai Shimbun and Shinano Mainichi Shimbun newspapers and for the NHK National Haiku Contest, and is now head judge for the National High School Haiku Contest. Her haiku collections include "Map of the Stars" ("Hoshi no Chizu"), "Bee Fades into Light" ("Hikari Mamire no Hachi") and "Stirring Violets" ("Sumire Soyogu"); her books include "I Started a Haiku Club" ("Haikubu, Hajimemashita") and "Don't Cry, Your Electric Blanket Won't Betray You" ("Mou Nakanai, Denkimofu ha Uragiranai.")

Lives in Matsuyama City. Head of the haiku group “Itsuki Gumi” and a member of the Aoi Haiku Kai. Recipient of the 8th Haidan Prize. Also involved in the establishment of the Haiku Koshien competition. Selects content for such sites as the Matsuyama City official haiku site “Haiku Post 365.” First Haiku Capital Matsuyama Ambassador since 2015. Has published numerous works, including the haiku collections “Itsuki Shu Ryu,” “Ouchi de Haiku,” and “Natsui Itsuki no Haiku Kotohajime.”

Chair of haiku coterie Rakuen. Recipient of the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s New Artist Award, the Modern Haiku Association Award, the Koshi-no-Kuni Poetry Award, and the Shiba Fukio New Haiku Poet Award’s Shinji Saitō Encouragement Prize. Currently serving as Executive Director of the Modern Haiku Association, Director of the Haiku International Association, selector for NHK Haiku and Nannichi Haidan, and head judge of the National High School Haiku Contest (Haiku Kōshien). Author of four poetry collections and the poetry guidebook Haiku Meets Tanka, among numerous coauthored works. Engaged in creative activity across multiple languages and formats.

Made her debut as an author in 1987 with "Our Neighbors' Crimes." Received the Naoki Award in 1999 for "Reason." She is a popular author not only for her thriller novel but also her period ones. One of the novelists that best represents modern Japan. Many of her works have been turned into TV shows or movies.