Rossella Menegazzo is an Associate Professor of East Asian Art History at the University of Milan and an author whose work can be found in professional catalogues, magazines, newspapers, and books on Japanese art and culture. Menegazzo also organises and speaks at numerous international conferences and has active collaborations with museums across the globe exhibiting Japanese art. In 2017 Menegazzo was awarded the prize from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Japan for the honourable promotion of research on Japan in Italy.