Born in Ogimi Village, Okinawa in 1953, she began photography in the 1970s and studied photography at the Shomei Tomatsu School of Photography at workshop school of photography in 1974. Based in Okinawa, she continues to work and produce photographs that are closely connected to the people of Okinawa, focusing on people around Okinawa. In 2011, she received the Sagamihara Photography Award for "FENCES, OKINAWA" and in 2019 the Photographic Society of Japan Award for Artist of the Year. She has exhibited her photographs widely in Japan and abroad, and her work is in numerous public collections, including the Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, as well as the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Yokohama Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (USA), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (USA).