Curriculum Vitae

Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang

Studium

July 1999

PhD dissertation award "summa cum laude", Heidelberg University

January 1999

PhD dissertation, Heidelberg University, “Image, Text and Audience: The Taishokan story in Visual Representations of the Early Modern Period. Studies of Pictorial Narrative in Japan,” advisor: Prof. Lothar Ledderose, second reader: Prof. Burglind Jungmann (UCLA)

June 1994 – October 1996

Gakushûin University, Tokyo
Postgraduate Studies in the History of Japanese Art

April 1989 – May 1994

Heidelberg University, Germany
Major: History of East Asian Art (M.A.)

March 1988 – March 1989

Waseda University, Tokyo
Major: Japanese Language

April 1984 – February 1988

Free University Berlin, Germany
Major: History of European Art, Italian Studies, Japanese Studies (B.A.)

July 1983

German highschool degree, Kurfürst-Friedrich-Gymnasium, Heidelberg (Grade: 1,8)

September 1980 – August 1981

Abbotsholme School, Staffordshire, England
English boarding school, A-level courses in European history and English literature