Koyama Satoko

Professor of literature at Nishōgakusha University. Born in 1976. Specializes in Japanese religious history. Completed her doctorate in history and anthropology at Tsukuba University in 2003. Works include Mononoke no Nihonshi: Shiryō, yūrei, yōkai no 1000 nen (A Japanese History of Mononoke: A Millennium of Spirits, Ghosts, and Yōkai), Ōjōgiwa no Nihonshi: Hito wa ika ni shi o mukaete kita no ka (A Japanese History of Dying Moments: How Have People Faced Death?), and Oni to Nihonjin no rekishi (A History of Oni and the Japanese People).