F. Oberlin University (Tokyo, Japan). She is a former Toyota Professor in Residence at the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Michigan (2012-2013), where she taught a Japanese cursive writing and reading workshop. She has a PhD from Waseda University. Based on her dissertation on traditional dance in Kyoto, she published a book, The Birth of Kyomai (Kyoto Dance): Inoue-ryu Dance in Nineteenth-Century Kyoto.