Asa Ito (born 1979) is a Japanese scholar of aesthetics. Born in Tokyo, she pursued graduate studies at the University of Tokyo, where she received a Ph.D. in literature. Originally interested in becoming a biologist, she later turned to aesthetics and contemporary art, and her research explores the body, sensory perception, and communication, with particular attention to the experiences of people with disabilities. In "Me no Mienai Hito wa Sekai o Do Miteiru no ka," drawing on interviews with blind and visually impaired people, Ito examines spatial perception, the senses, bodily movement, language, and humor to explore ways of experiencing the world without relying on sight and to reconsider assumptions about seeing and the human body.