Installations and glass artist, born in Tokyo, Japan who graduated in visual communication design at Musashino Art University there. Worked as a graphic designer; 1982–7 periodically made hot glass and kiln work studies in America; attended Royal College of Art for her master’s in ceramic and glass, 1989–91; with further studies in France and Germany, 1993–4. In the 1990s she held a number of residencies, including Westminster Adult Education Institute and the College of Art in Edinburgh, where she lived. Mukaide’s International Festival show there in 1996, including her Japanese garden installation, prompted The Glasgow Herald to call her “the most unusual and gifted glass artist to appear in the 1990s.” City Art Gallery, Manchester, showed an installation in 1998.