EDUCATION
April 2025 – Present. PhD Candidate in Art History, University of Osaka, Japan
Working title of thesis: ‘Abstracting Wartime Past: The Transwar Art and Careers of Inokuma Gen’ichirō, Kawabata Minoru, Okada Kenzō, and Takai Teiji’. Supervised by: Professor Hiroko Ikegami.
September 2019 – December 2020. MLitt Art History (with Distinction), University of St Andrews, UK
Dissertation entitled ‘“Oriental” Abstraction? Okada Kenzō and the Postwar Globalisation of the Art World’. Supervised by: Professor Natalie Adamson. Marked: 18.0/20.0.
April 2014 – March 2019. BA Philosophy (Aesthetics), Keio University, Japan
・Dissertation entitled ‘Socially Engaged Art Practices in Japan: A History of Participation and Spectatorship in a Comparative Perspective, 1964–2011’. Supervised by: Dr Yukiko Kato (Saitama University) and Professor Koichi Toyama (Keio).
・Museum Curator’s Certificate in Japan.
EMPLOYMENT
September 2025 – Present. Adjunct Lecturer, College of Global Communication, J.F. Oberlin University, Tokyo.
October 2022 – June 2023. Research Assistant for the subproject B14 'Interactive Materialities: Interrelationships between the Written / Painted and the Printed in Japan of the Long 17th Century' of the Collaborative Research Center 933 'Material Text Cultures', Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.
June 2022 – July 2022. Teaching Assistant, Institute of East Asian Art History, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
September 2025 – Present. College of Global Communication, J.F. Oberlin University, Adjunct Lecturer for undergraduate course 芸術文化 (History) (taught in English).
Summer semester 2023. Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, instructor for foundation course ‘Einführung in die Bildanalyse’ (co-taught with Dr. Monica Klasing Chen, et al.) Session: ‘Politics and Visual Analysis of Japanese War Art, ca. 1937–1945’, 29 June 2023.
Summer semester 2022. Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, teaching assistant (simultaneous interpreter) for lecture ‘Modern Japanese Painters’ and seminar ‘Invisible Regions of Japanese Art’ for Ryo Furuta (Ishibashi Foundation Visiting Professor from Tokyo University of the Arts).
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Internship
April 2021 – March 2022. Curatorial and Collections Intern, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
November 2018 – March 2019. “Cultural Narrative of a City” Project Intern, Keio University Art Center, Tokyo
April 2018 – March 2019. Education and Public Programmes Intern, The National Art Center, Tokyo
Translations and interpretations
27 June 2022. Simultaneous interpretation (Japanese to English) for Akiko Furuta’s special lecture ‘Watanabe Seitei: The Singularity and Universality of His Paintings’, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.
21 June 2022. Simultaneous interpretation (Japanese to English) for Ryo Furuta’s special lecture ‘Asia is One? Okakura Tenshin and His Idea of the Art’, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.
May 2021 – August 2021. Translation (Japanese to English) of documents on Pierre Soulages for Natalie Adamson, School of Art History, University of St Andrews.
FELLOWSHIPS
2022–Present. Ishibashi Foundation Digital Futures Scholar: Archives of Postwar Japanese Art in Europe, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures.
2022–2023. PoNJA Wikipedia Initiative – Round 2 (PWI2) Fellowship, Asia Art Archive in America (AAA-A) and PoNJA-GenKon.
SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS
2025. JAHF Graduate Student Travel Grant, Japan Art History Forum ($ 1000)
2024–2025. Grant for Groundbreaking Young Researchers, Suntory Foundation (2023年度「若手研究者のためのチャレンジ研究助成」、サントリー文化財団). (¥ 1,000,000)
2023–2024. Takanashi Foundation for Historical Science (髙梨学術奨励基金「令和5年度 若手研究助成」). (¥270,000)
August 2023. Heinz Kaempfer Fund (financial support for the acquisition of publication permissions for images), Society of Japanese Art, Leiden. (€ 127)
PRIZES
December 2020. Deans’ List, University of St Andrews, UK. Awarded to students who average 16.5 or over in their degree.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
College Art Association (CAA)
Diasporic Asian Art Network (DAAN)
European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology (EAAA)
European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS)
Japan Art History Forum (JAHF)
Post-1945 Japanese Art Discussion Group / Gendai Bijutsu Kondankai (PoNJA-GenKon)