Kokusai Chuishi (international Chinese medicine practitioner)– tax –

Kokusai Yakuzenshi (international yakuzen practitioner) and Kokusai Chuishi (international Chinese medicine practitioner). She has led StudioGift, a bread, cooking and confectionery school, for nine years, working under the theme of becoming beautiful from the inside. She brings in fermentation and seasonal ingredients, and her strength is conveying yakuzen through bread and cooking. Tie-in lessons with companies...

She spent her twenties as a systems engineer and, through ill health of body and mind in a punishing job, came to feel how much food matters. At thirty she set out to become a chef, honing her craft on the job while attending evening classes at culinary school. After having a child, facing her child's development and fussy eating, she came to the idea that the body is built from what you eat...

She worked as a pharmacist in a dispensing pharmacy for twelve years, serving as supervising pharmacist and pharmacy manager. She then earned the Kokusai Yakuzenshi and Kokusai Chuishi qualifications and spent two years counselling as an adviser at a kampo specialist pharmacy. She also publishes health information, including kampo columns for web media. Pharmaceutical...