Fumiko Miyazaki is professor emerita at Keisen University, Tokyo.
Kate Wildman Nakai is professor emerita at Sophia University, Tokyo.
Mark Teeuwen is professor of Japanese studies at the University of Oslo.
Miyazaki, Nakai, and Teeuwen previously collaborated (with Anne Walthall and John Breen) on a translation of another late Edo source: Lust, Commerce, and Corruption: An Account of What I Have Seen and Heard by an Edo Samurai (Columbia, 2014).