Yoko Takirai was born in Tokyo in 1971. Since the early nineties deals with design at the studio of Yuzo Yamashita in Tokyo, then a degree in the United States in the history of art and foreign languages ??at the West Virginia University in Tokyo then working at the Museum of Japanese Literature. In 1995 he moved to Florence to study at the school of goldsmiths "The Goldsmith Arts", where he obtained a Diploma of jewelry, jewelry design, stone setting and engraving. Then at the Art Institute of Florence on design diploma in jewelry design. In 1998-2000 teaches jewelry in school "Alchemy", diventanto shortly after Giampaolo assistant Babetto. Other artistic partnership of great results is what comes to life in 1998 with Peter Pellitteri. In 2002 he founded, in Florence, the firm of contemporary jewelry Takirai Design. Yoko Takirai now works in his studio-workshop in the "Arts and Crafts Space" in Florence, home to the complex: Florence Foundation for The Arts and Crafts. Its collections are present in numerous exhibitions both in Italy and abroad. In 2007, his works became part of the collection of the Museo degli Argenti of Palazzo Pitti in Florence. Her jewels are also exhibited in the International Museum of Applied Arts Today in Turin and in the museum "Design Centrum Kielce" in Poland.