Japanese actor , voice actor and narrator. After graduating from junior high school in 1949, she entered the Tokyo Broadcasting Company (NHK) training school as a third-year student. Her classmates included Hisashi Katsuta and Kazue Takahashi, who later became active as voice actors. In 1959, he joined the Bungakuza theatre company; in 1963, he participated in the founding of the theatre company Kumo; in 1975, Kumo disbanded and he worked as a freelance theatre artist, appearing on stages such as Jijinkai and Komatsuza.