He was born in the town of Moji, Kitakyushu, in 1950. After working for nine years as an editor for a publishing house in Tokyo, he decided to dedicate himself to writing. His works include a biography of the poet Irako Seihaku, a travel book tracing the steps of Kafka, Celan, and Walter Benjamin in Berlin, an unclassifiable compilation of letters, and the book of poems Kurumi no seni no tameni (For the fighting spirit of the nuts). He is a professor of Art Science and Poetics at Tama University and a founding member of the Institute of Art Anthropology in Tokyo. His first novel, The Cat Who Came from the Sky, translated into English and French with great success, won the Kiyama Shohei Award in 2002.
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