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Portfolio displayed in BCBF
At the Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2026, (13~16 April), the joint booth of JBBY(Japan Board on Books for Young People) & JF(The Japan Foundation) displays the portfolios of Japanese illustrators, including mine. Last year, the works of each illustrator are shown in A4-sized document folder, This year, instead, works are shown in 2pages (1spread) in A3-sized […]
INSIDE ME, ME INSIDE
Self published in November 2025, released at the group- exhibition “Petit Noël Vol.6”Inside Me, Me Inside is made for children and adolescents (especially girls) who begin to have doubts about themselves, feeling uneasy in search of “the real me”. I want to encourage them to be confident in themselves and to expand their own world. The […]
exhibition”Petit Noël” Nov.28~Dec.2
An announcement of coming group exhibitiontitle: 6ème Petit Noël ---"a little gift of hand-painted illustrations in the holiday season"when: Nov.28(fri) ~ Dec.2(tue) 11:00-19:00 ( from 13:00 on the first day /until 18:00 on the last day)where: Gallery 219(ni-iku), Omotesando, Tokyo (map in English below)who: KAMIYAMA masumi, KISHINAMI Chizuko, TODOROKI Chizuko, YOSHIZAWA Tsugumi, YOSHIDA Toshikazu and KINO Toriko(me). Gallery 219(ni-iku): 4-2-19 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo/ […]
At Bologna Children’s Book fair
At the Bologna Children’s Bookfair 2025, (31 March ~ 3 April), the joint booth of JBBY(Japan Board on Books for Young People) & JF(The Japan Foundation) displays the portfolios of Japanese illustrators; including mine. In my portfolio, works are categorized in 5 section; *published book, *published and now out of print, *self-published, *unpublished projects, and *illustrations.Please […]
Festival of Literature in France
I had an opportunity to have my previous work participate in the festival of literature Vo-Vf, at the city in the region of Gif-sur-Yvette in France (Oct.4~Oct.6). This year, the country in the spotlight was Japan (in the section of young readers), and fortunately my activity book of tangram entitled “Qui Suis-Je?” was adopted as […]