Christian Tagsold is a Professor and Researcher in the Department of Modern Japanese Studies at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany. Since 2006, he has focused his research on Japanese gardens in Japan, Europe, and the United States. His habilitation thesis on the influence of Japanese gardens in the West earned him the JaDe Award from the Foundation for the Promotion of Japanese-German Scientific and Cultural Relations in 2012. His book, Spaces in Translation: Japanese Gardens and the West (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017), received the 2019 Abbott Lowell Cummings Prize from the Vernacular Architecture Forum. His further research interests include sports and the Olympics in Japan and the Japanese diaspora in Europe.