Hikino Kyōsuke is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Chiba University. He has published a monograph on the Jodo Shinshu sect in early modern Japan,  Kinsei shūkyō sekai ni okeru fuhen to tokushu 近世宗教世界における普遍と特殊 (Hōzōkan, 2007). His current research focuses on Buddhist book publishing in early modern and modern Japan.