Awards:

2nd place in All Japan Dance Contest in 1972
Kyoto Prefectural Government Arts and Culture Medal of Honour  in 1982
“Spirit of the Fringe” award in Edinburgh in 1995 and 2000
Japan Festival Award in London in 2000

 ***Newsweek Japan - chosen among the"100 Japanese the World Respects"***

Collaboration  With Major Artists:

Evelyn Glennie - UK percussionist
Seiichi Tanaka and the San Fransisco Taiko Dojo -Japanese drums
Oguchi Daihachi and the Osuwa Taiko- Japanese drums
George Kawaguchi - Jazz drums
Pepe el Chocolata  - flamenco guitarist
Chikuzan - tsugaru shamisen (3 stringed zither of Japan)
Katsuumi Niwa - opera tenor
Geoff Smith - dulcimer (UK)
Steven Severin - composer / musician (UK)
Arban Severin - composer / musician (UK)
Kitaro - musician (Japan)
Fumio Miyashita- musician (Japan)
Ron Korb - flautist (Canada)
Godfrey King - pianist (UK)
Mika Haka - Maori singer/entertainer
 

Major Performance Venues:

Lincoln Centre - New York   (Himiko -  Sun Goddess of Japan)
Town Hall - New York  (The Dancing Goddess)
Berkley Zellerbach Theatre - San Francisco  (with San Francisco Taiko Dojo)
Palais de Congres - Versailles  (The Dancing Goddess)
ICA - London   (The Woman in the Dunes)
Riverside Studios - London  (Eros of Love & Destruction)
Soho Art Theatre - London  (The Pillow Book)
Reading Concert Hall - Reading  (with Evelyn Glennie)
Saylis Bennie Theatre - Brighton University  (Sex & Consumerism)
Russia Concert Hall - Moscow (Kama Sutra)
Lenin Theatre - Kiev  (Rashomon)
Kyoto Concert Hall   (Salome)
Kyoto Prefectural Arts Hall   (The Woman in the Dunes) and many more
New National Theatre - Tokyo  (The Tibetan Book of the Dead)
Setagaya Public Theatre - Tokyo  (Salome)
Aoyama Enkei Theatre - Tokyo (The Woman Who Dances With the Wolves)
Oriental Theatre - Kobe  (Salome)
Osaka Festival Theatre (Himiko)
Red Brick Warehouse - Yokohama  (Empire of the Senses  / Realm of Desire)
London Sadler’s Wells Lilian Baylis Theatre  (Beauty & the Beast)
 

Temples:

Tohfukuji Temple - Kyoto (Rashomon)
Yushima Seido Temple - Tokyo (Rashomon)
Chion-in Temple - Kyoto (The Tibetan Book of the Dead)
Kiyomizu Temple - Kyoto (Indian Classical Dance)
Otagi Nembutsu Temple - Kyoto (Birth of Buddha)
Zenkouji Temple - Nagano (ritual in inner alter)
Gokokuji Temple- Tokyo (Himiko)
Kurodani Ei-Un In Temple - Kyoto (Mahabharata)
 
Countries:

Japan, India, UK, USA, Canada, Mexico, France, Italy, Germany, Croatia, Slovenia, Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaidjan, Yugoslavia, Hong Kong, Korea, China, Israel, Australia,
New Zealand, Switzerland