Ueda Akinari

In this Japanese name, the surname is Ueda.
Portrait of Ueda Akinari by Koga Bunrei

Ueda Akinari or Ueda Shūsei (上田 秋成, July 25, 1734 in Osaka – August 8, 1809 in Kyoto) was a Japanese author, scholar and waka poet, and a prominent literary figure in 18th-century Japan.[1] He was an early writer in the yomihon genre and his two masterpieces, Ugetsu Monogatari ("Tales of Rain and the Moon") and Harusame Monogatari ("Tales of Spring Rain"), are central to the canon of Japanese literature.[2]

  1. ^ Keene, Donald. 1976. World within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600–1867. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.
  2. ^ Hamada, Kengi. "About the Author". In Tales of Moonlight and Rain. New York: Columbia University Press.