Born in 1963 in Tatsuno, Hyogo Prefecture, she earned a PhD in aesthetics and art history from Kyoto University. She also studied at the Jagiellonian University. She was a curator at the Kyoto National Museum and then a professor at the Department of Fine Arts at the Kyoto City University of the Arts.
She has focused on contemporary Polish art. She has authored numerous exhibitions, including ‘Theatre of Death – Homage to Kantor’ (2015); ‘Celebration: Contemporary Art from Poland and Japan’ (2019), as well as the publications ‘Contemporary Art of Central Europe (Chuo no GendaiBijutsu)’ (2014); ‘Polish Avant-garde Art: Applied Fantasy for Survival (Poland no Zenei Bijutsu)’ (2014); Poland as a Soil for the Growth of Contemporary Art: Heritage and Transformation, from Kantor to the Present Day (Gendai Bijutsu no Ba to shite no Poland) (2021).
She has collaborated with Polish museums and universities. She has participated in numerous Polish-Japanese conferences, including the first Meeting of Polish and Japanese Art Historians and Musicologists in Warsaw and Toruń in 2004.
