Music and Dance Performances at Funeral Rites as a Political Mechanism in the Ancient Japanese Court

received her master’s degree in history from Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, and a PhD in musicology from Tokyo University of the Arts. She is currently a lecturer at both the Music Department of Toho Gakuen College in Tokyo and Seitoku University, Chiba, and has also been invited to universities and institutions in Europe, Africa and the Americas to give presentations on aspects of Japanese music. Her major areas of interest are Japanese music history and the philology of seventh- through eleventh-century Japanese documents, especially those dealing with music and dance performances in court rituals. She is currently affiliated as part-time lecturer at Toho Gakuen College in Tokyo.