Established Hiro Studio, New York 1958. Freelance from 1958, mostly fashion. Harper's Bazaar staff photographer 1966-74. 1972, Society of Publication Designers Award 1979. Hiro is probably more well known in America than in Japan.
Work includes fashion, advertising, portraiture, still life, and landscape.
Graduated from high school in Koenji, Tokyo in April 1995. Her entry was a small 36-page photo book made of color copies of regular prints. It was a photo diary compiled into an album-like booklet which was not an unusual technique. All the good, random moments of her current life. Araki Nobuyoshi, one of the judges, nominated her as the contest's 1st place winner.