Born 1959 in Ehime, Japan. Her area of expertise is Japanese Art History. She is a professor at Akita University of Art. Graduated from Tohoku University, Faculty of Letters, Department of Oriental and Japanese Art History, and worked as a curator at Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art (1983-2012). In 2006, she completed the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, Department of Cultural Resources Studies, the University of Tokyo. Ph.D. in Literature. After serving as director of the Koriyama City Museum of Art (2012-20), she assumed her current position in 2021.
Her major publications include A Study of Performing Arts in Early Modern Shonai: Tsuruoka, Sakata, Kuromori (Serika Shobo, 2013, awarded the “Honda Yasuji Prize” by the Folk Performing Arts Society).