KOURYOUBorn in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1983. Lives and works in Tokyo and Osaka Prefecture. In 2008, KOURYOU launched Click Spirit, an online labyrinth of hyperlinks. Shifting between site creation and her artistic practice, she also produces paintings that resemble design drawings and three-dimensional works. Her representative works include the Iwaki Legend Notes—Accounts of the Fox Incident website, which superimposes real-world maps and maps of traditional tales and legends, and has been online since 2016. After building her first Ebune for Setouchi Triennale 2019 (Megijima), in 2020 she launched the Ebune houseboat project that has since “drifted” to Saga, Fukuoka, Shodoshima, Awajishima, and Osaka. In conjunction with many other artists, KOURYOU collaborates with local communities to organize exhibitions, rituals, and events based on research about the land. She puts together a narrative on the website, too. Her major exhibitions include VOCA 2019 (Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, 2019), From the museum collection 2020: fourth period (Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi Prefecture, 2021), KNOT (Amano Gallery, Osaka, 2023), and Prototype (Watarium Museum on Sundays & Light Seed Gallery, Tokyo, 2023). She also participated in Minamihida Art Discovery (Gero City, Gifu Prefecture, 2024) as EBUNE × AGURI.