Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki

Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki

male, deceased (1966)
translation, indologist, AnglophoneJapanesewriter, author, Translator, Theosophist…writer, Japanese literature, Japanese
Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki was a famous Japanese author of books and essays on Buddhism, Zen and Shin that were instrumental in spreading interest in...
Sokei-An

Sokei-An

male
AnglophoneJapanesewriter, Zen Buddhist monk, zen, priest, Pearl Harbor, Japanese Buddhist monk…Japanese, Japanese American internment, Japanese language, Japanese Imperial Army
Sokei-an Shigetsu Sasaki (1882 - 1945) was a Rinzai Zen Buddhist priest who was the first Zen Master to take residence on United States soil....
Yukio Ozaki

Yukio Ozaki

male, deceased (1954)
national flower, West Potomac Park, National Cherry Blossom Festival, cherry blossom, Tidal Basin, AnglophoneJapanesewriter…Japanese
Yukio Ozaki December 24 1858-October 6 1954) was a liberal Japanese politician, born in Kanagawa Prefecture. Ozaki was opposed to militarism, and...
Yone Noguchi

Yone Noguchi

male, deceased (1947)
poet, Asian American, Translator, California writer, Japanese, writer…AnglophoneJapanesewriter, Japanese American writer
Yone Noguchi, born (and known in Japan as) Yonejiro Noguchi, was an influential writer of poetry, fiction, essays, and literary criticism in both...
Joseph Heco

Joseph Heco

male, deceased (1897)
naturalized citizen of the United States, Japanese American, AnglophoneJapanesewriter, Japanese American writer, from Hyōgo Prefecture
Joseph Heco (1837-1897), the first Japanese American to be naturalized as a United States citizen and the first to publish a Japanese language...
Suematsu Kenchō

Suematsu Kenchō

male, deceased (1920)
AnglophoneJapanesewriter, Yukuhashi, Fukuoka, Buzen Province, Japanese expatriate in the United Kingdom, Fukuoka Prefecture, Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge…writer, Japanese
The Japanese politician and man of letters was born in the hamlet of Maeda in Buzen Province, now part of Yukuhashi, Fukuoka Prefecture.
Kiyoshi Kawakami

Kiyoshi Kawakami

male, deceased (1949)
AnglophoneJapanesewriter, Japanese, Siberia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Non-fiction writer, writer
Kiyoshi "Karl" Kawakami (8 August 1873 - 12 October 1949) was a Japanese Christian journalist who published several anti-war books in the United...
Nishiwaki Junzaburo

Nishiwaki Junzaburo

male, deceased (1982)
AnglophoneJapanesewriter, Japanese poet, writer, Literary critic, Translator, poet…Japanese
was a contemporary Japanese poet and literary critic, active in Showa period Japan.
Lafcadio Hearn

Lafcadio Hearn

male, deceased (1904)
Collector of fairy tales, Irish-Greek, wiktionary 小, Japanese, writer, AnglophoneJapanesewriter…Irish Japanese
Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, also known as Koizumi Yakumo (小泉八雲) after gaining Japanese citizenship, was an author, best known for his books about Ja...
Okakura Kakuzō

Okakura Kakuzō

male, deceased (1913)
From yokohama, University of Tokyo alumni, AnglophoneJapanesewriter, meiji restoration, Japanese, yoga…writer
Okakura Kakuzō, published on the eve of the Russo-Japanese War, is famous for its opening line, "Asia is one." He argued that Asia is "one" in its h...