Momo Kanazawa specialises in Western medieval art, particularly Romanesque art and Christian Iconography. Born in Tokyo in 1968, Momo Kanazawa was raised in India and educated in the U.K., completing doctoral courses at the University of Tokyo (took PhD in Ecology and Art History) and the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. After teaching for eleven years at Tokai University, she joined Tama Art University in 2020 and the Institute for Anthropology of Art and Design in 2021. Her interest ranges from arts to crafts as an Editorial Board member of Kogei Seika.

Her publications Cosmographica Romanica: Reading the Tapestry of Creation in Girona (The University of Tokyo Press/Tokyo, 2008) and The Romanesque Art Revolution (Shinchosha/Tokyo, 2015) were awarded the Kinji Shimada Memorial Prize and the 38th Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities, respectively. Her comprehensive research on Romanesque art in Italy is published as a series, The Pilgrimage to Italian Churches (3 vols.). Her travelogue continues in a series of articles in Kogei Seika on Spain, Switzerland, Russia, and France.