「近世身分制社会における 忠と孝―近世武士像創出の一面―」

works as a professor at the Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences in Waseda University in Japan. She majors in Japanese History of Early Modern Period and is the author of following publications: Early Modern Japanese Society, Its Rules and Norms: Honor, Status, and the Use of Force (2005); The Real Nature of 47 Akō Rōnin (2006); Examination of the Way of the Samurai: Quarrels, Revenge, and the Killing for Rudeness (2007); A New History of Japanese “Letterature” Vol. 2. (together with Kimiko Kono, Wiebke Denecke, Tokio Shinkawa, Hidenori Jinno, Kazushige Munakata, 2017).