Yoko Kawaguchi is a cultural historian specialising in the relationship between Japan and the west. She writes and lectures on Japanese art and religion, Japanese garden history and other aspects of Japanese culture, as well as on the perception of Japanese women in the west. Her publications include Butterfly’s Sisters: The Geisha in Western Culture for Yale University Press, Japanese Zen Gardens, and Authentic Japanese Gardens. She has appeared on programmes for BBC Radio 4 and the World Service, and lectures for the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Born in Tokyo and brought up in the United States, Canada and Japan, she graduated with a degree in the Humanities from International Christian University, Tokyo. She holds an MA in English and American Literature from Kyoto University and has been a postgraduate research student at Newnham College, Cambridge University. Yoko has lived in the UK since 1989.
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