The Rev. Dr. Margaret W. Izutsu spent over a dozen of the last thirty years living and working in Japan. A graduate of Oberlin College with a major in East Asian Studies, she spent her first year in Japan at Doshisha University as part of the Associated Kyoto Program in the mid-seventies. She returned to Japan in 1981 and spent the decade of the 80s training and working as a psychological counselor and founding member of the International Counseling Centre of Kobe, Japan.

She returned to the states in 1990 to earn a Masters of Divinity and a Doctor of Theology from Harvard Divinity School. In her doctoral work, she drew on years of experience of Japanese memorial customs in writing an ethnography of grieving in the Japanese Confucian tradition.

In founding The Rite Source, she works with educational psychologists, clinicians and theologians to adapt Japanese ritual resources to the needs of grieving persons in the North American context. She is an ordained Episcopal priest and has served on the faculty and administration of the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, TX, and as a consultant to the Episcopal Church Center in New York City.

Please contact The Rite Source for details:
Email: mizutsu@theritesource.org
Phone: 512-320-8799
FAX: 512-473-2328