Professor Emerita, Kobe University
(Japanese sturides, Graduate School of Intercultural Studies)
B.A., Musicology, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music,1984.
M.A., Musicology, Graduate School of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, 1987.
D.L., Given from the Graduate School of Osaka University, 1999.
Doctoral Dissertation: Temporal Structure and Concepts of tôgaku in the late Heian period
Historical Study on Japanese Traditional Music, especially Court Music gagaku
Okinawan Performing Arts
Traditional Performing Arts in Japanese Communities Abroad
Transformation of traditional musics in the contemporary society
Toyo Ongaku Gakkai (Society for Research in Asiatic Music)
Nippon Ongaku Gakkai (Musicological Society of Japan)(editorial board)
Okinawa Bunka Kyokai
International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM)(Chair of the Study Group on Musics of East Asia, 2014-2016)
Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM)
"Gigaku in the 21st century" , the 4th international symposium, Study Group on Musics of East Asia, ICTM, Nara University of Education, August 21, 2014.
"L'univers du gagaku. " Conservatoire National Supérieure Musique et danse de Lyon, février 25, 2015.
"L'univers du gagaku. " Maison de la culture du Japon a Paris, février 26,27,28, 2015.
"Le gagaku et Tôru Takemitsu : « In an autumn garden », " Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris, novembre 10, 2015.
"Gagaku in the Kasuga wakamiya onmatsuri festival: from the sound of imperial authority to the sound of local identity," International symposium "Presence through sound: place and contemporary music in and from East Asia", Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Sydney University, March 30, 2016; London University, School of Oriental and African Studies, April 18, 2017.
"Development of a city and its musical circumstance: the activities of craftsmen and merchants of musical instruments in the modern period of Nagoya, Japan". The 3rd Forum of the International Council for Traditional Music, 中央音楽学院（北京）July 14, 2018.
"Art or Record? An Exploration of a Japanese Bugaku Scroll through Cross-cultural and Inter-disciplinary Approaches." In the 45th World Conference, International Council for Traditional Music, Chulalongkorn University (Thailand), July 17, 2019.
" 'Locality’ and ‘centralization’ of the performing arts: introduction of gagaku into local shrines in the Meiji period." in Symposium 'Gagaku: Cultural Capital, Cultural Heritage, and Cultural Identity.' Critical Interventions Lab (Symposium, Workshops, and Performances) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, June 2021.
“A local song or a court song?: a‘discovery’of a saibara song“Sakurabito”in Nagoya.” 7th Symposium of the Study Group on Musics of East Asia, International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM). May 15, 2022 (online).
"Between ‘folk’ and ‘imperial’: changes of chigo-bugaku稚児舞楽 (bugaku dance of ‘children of festivity’) at Shizuoka-sengen-jinja shrine in Japan." International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance (ICTMD) 48th World Conference, Jan 14, 2025.
"Two ‘East and West’ and hegemony in music and music studies: Tokyo World Music Festival 1961." International Conference on “Cold War and Music in East Asia: Tour, Encounter, Cross-border”, December 27, 2025. 國立清華大学（台湾）