In Middle and High School, studied design at the Iida City Arts Research Center (geijustu kyoiku kenkyusho, and the same at the Japan Tsushin Art school. He won a prize at an exhibition at Japan Tsushin Art School. From age 20 he practiced design at a decor firm and at night studied oil painting with Shibuya Kusasaburo. He returned home to help his professor from the Iida City Arts Research Center open a gallery. While working on that, he was employed at the Kohara Bijutsu Kenkyusho doing design. At age 30, Imamura say in Bijutsu Techo a special edition on the etching artist Nakabayashi Tadatoshi, which stimulated a change. From that point, he began showing at the Tolman collection galleries in New York and Tokyo, up to the present. Studied at Atelier Contrepoint, Paris from 1991, concentrating on color etching. In 1997 he received a grant from the Agency for Cultural Affairs to travel again for study, and again chose to stay at Atelier Contrepoint in Paris. In 2001, he participated in the International Print biennale in Cadaques, Spain as a judge.