Kyōko Nakano

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Kyōko Nakano (Japanese: 中野京子) is a Japanese scholar of German literature,[1] Western cultural historian, and translator.[2]

Nakano grew up in Hokkaido, Japan,[3] and completed her master's degree at Waseda University in Shinjuku, Tokyo.[4] In 2007, she published Scary Pictures [ja], that would be the first of a series of art books on the theme of fear in painting (kowai-e).[5] Volumes 2, 3, 4 and 5 were published in 2008, 2009, 2016 and 2017, respectively, and the best-selling series led to an exhibition in 2017[6][7][8][9][10][11][12] and a stage adaptation in 2022.[13]

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