Yuriko Yokoyama

Yuriko Yokoyama is a professor at the National Museum of Japanese History, Inter-University Research Institute Corporation National Institutes for the Humanities. She also teaches early modern Japanese history. She is the author of Meiji ishin to kinsei mibunsei no kaitai [The Meiji Restoration and Dissolution of Early Modern Status System] (Tokyo, 2006) and has published a number of journal articles including “Jyūkyū toshi Shakai ni okeru chiiki hegemoni no saihen: Onna-kamiyui, Yūjo no Seizon to ‘Kaihou’ wo megutte” [Reorganisation of Regional Hegemony in the Nineteenth Century Urban Society: On the Survival and ‘Emancipation’ of Coiffures and Yūjo], Rekishigaku Kenkyū 885 (2011).