She also worked on comparative approaches to Greek tragedy with an emphasis on Japanese classical drama.
[1] In 1987, she completed her PhD in the Faculty of Letters, at Kyoto University, with a dissertation entitled The Dissipative Works of Sophocles.
The book also argued that since Odysseus appears in many fragments of lost plays, Sophocles must have favoured him as a character to write about.
[6] Kiso significantly collaborated with Mae J. Smethurst, an American scholar of classical literature, first translating The Artistry of Aeschylus and Zeami into Japanese.
[8] Subsequently, she advised on Smethurst's Dramatic Action in Greek Tragedy and Noh: Reading with and Beyond Aristotle, as well as translating it into Japanese.