The Japanese author index
Use the following menus to display tables with the names of premodern or modern Japanese writers in both English and Japanese. Also included are the author's dates and the main genre or genres in which he or she worked. Note that these lists follow the usual Japanese practice of giving the surname first, and that Japanese orthography has been given preference. As a convenience, spaces have been added to the Japanese versions of the names to indicate the break between last and first names; normally these spaces would not appear. In the case of modern poets, the term tanka has been used rather than waka to refer to the traditional 5-7-5-7-7 poetic form.
Premodern Authors
Modern Authors
Modern authors J-M
| Name (English) | Name (Japanese) | Dates | Genre |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kaga Otohiko | 加賀 乙彦 | 1929.4.22 - 2023.1.12 | fiction |
| Kaikō Takeshi (Ken) | 開高 健 | 1930.12.30 - 1989.12.9 | fiction |
| Kajii Motojirō | 梶井 基次郎 | 1901.2.17 - 1932.3.24 | fiction |
| Kakuta Mitsuyo | 角田 光代 | b. 1967.3.8 | fiction |
| Kamei Katsuichirō | 亀井 勝一郎 | 1907.2.6 - 1966.11.14 | criticism |
| Kamura Isota | 嘉村 磯多 | 1897.12.15 - 1933.11.30 | fiction |
| Kanagaki Robun | 仮名垣 魯文 | 1829.1.6 - 1894.11.8 | fiction, journalism |
| Kanai Choku | 金井 直 | 1926.3.18 - 1997 | poetry |
| Kanai Mieko | 金井 美恵子 | b. 1947.11.3 | fiction |
| Kanbara Ariake | 蒲原 有明 | 1876.3.15 - 1952.2.3 | poetry |
| Kanbayashi Akatsuki | 上林 暁 | 1902.10.6 - 1980.8.28 | fiction |
| Kanehara Hitomi | 金原 ひとみ | b. 1983.8.8 | fiction |
| Kaneko Kun'en | 金子 薫園 | 1876.11.30 - 1951.3.30 | tanka |
| Kaneko Mitsuharu | 金子 光晴 | 1895.12.25 - 1975.6.30 | poetry |
| Kaneko Tōta | 金子 兜太 | 1919.9.23 - 2018.2.20 | haiku |
| Kara Jūrō | 唐 十郎 | b. 1940.2.11 | drama, fiction |
| Karaki Junzō | 唐木 順三 | 1904.2.13 - 1980.5.27 | criticism |
| Karatani Kōjin | 柄谷 行人 | b. 1941.8.16 | criticism |
| Kasai Zenzō | 葛西 善蔵 | 1887.1.16 - 1928.7.23 | fiction |
| Kashimada Maki | 鹿島田 真希 | b. 1976.10.26 | fiction |
| Kashiwabara Hyōzō | 柏原 兵三 | 1933.11.10 - 1972.2.13 | fiction |
| Kasuga Iken | 春日 井健 | 1938.12.20 - 2004.5.22 | tanka |
| Kataoka Teppei | 片岡 鉄兵 | 1894.2.2 - 1944.12.25 | fiction |
| Katō Jirō | 加藤 治郎 | b. 1959.11.15 | tanka |
| Katō Michio | 加藤 道夫 | 1918.10.17 - 1953.12.22 | drama |
| Katō Norihiro | 加藤 典洋 | b. 1948.4.1 | criticism |
| Katō Shūichi | 加藤 周一 | 1919.9.19 - 2008.12.5 | criticism, fiction, poetry |
| Katō Shūson | 加藤 楸邨 | 1905.5.26 - 1993.7.3 | haiku |
| Katō Yukiko | 加藤 幸子 | 1936.9.26 - 2024.3.30 | fiction, criticism, essays |
| Katsura Nobuko | 桂 信子 | 1914.11.1 - 2004.12.16 | haiku |
| Kawabata Bōsha | 川端 茅舎 | 1900.8.14 - 1941.7.17 | haiku |
| Kawabata Yasunari | 川端 康成 | 1899.6.11 - 1972.4.16 | fiction |
| Kawada Jun | 川田 順 | 1882.1.15 - 1966.1.22 | tanka |
| Kawaguchi Matsutarō | 川口 松太郎 | 1899.10.1 - 1985.6.9 | fiction, drama |
| Kawahigashi Hekigotō | 河東 碧梧桐 | 1873.2.26 - 1937.2.1 | haiku |
| Kawaji Ryūkō | 川路 柳虹 | 1888.7.9 - 1959.4.17 | poetry |
| Kawakami Hiromi | 川上 弘美 | b. 1958.4.1 | fiction |
| Kawakami Mieko | 川上 未映子 | b. 1976.8.29 | fiction |
| Kawakami Tetsutarō | 河上 徹太郎 | 1902.1.8 - 1980.9.22 | criticism |
| Kawamura Jirō | 川村 二郎 | 1928.1.28 - 2008.2.7 | criticism, German literature |
| Kawamura Minato | 川村 湊 | b. 1951.2.23 | criticism |
| Kawarazaki Chōjūrō | 河原崎 長十郎 | 1902.12.13 - 1981.9.22 | drama |
| Kawasaki Chōtarō | 川崎 長太郎 | 1901.11.26 - 1985.11.6 | fiction |
| Kawasaki Hiroshi | 川崎 洋 | 1930.1.26 - 2004.10.21 | poetry |
| Kawatake Mokuami | 河竹 黙阿弥 | 1816.3.1 - 1893.1.22 | drama |
| Kikuchi Hiroshi (Kan) | 菊池 寛 | 1888.12.26 - 1948.3.6 | fiction |
| Kikuta Kazuo | 菊田 一夫 | 1908.3.1 - 1973.4.4 | drama |
| Kimata Osamu | 木俣 修 | 1906.7.28 - 1983.4.4 | tanka |
| Kin Kakuei (Kim Hagyon) |
金 鶴泳 | 1938.9.14 - 1985.1.4 | fiction |
| Kin Sekihan (Kim Sok-pom) |
金 石範 | b. 1925.10.2 | fiction |
| Kin Shiryō (Kim Saryan) |
金 史良 | 1914.3.3 - 1950.10? | fiction |
| Kin Tatsuju (Kim Darusu) |
金 達寿 | 1919.11.27 - 1997.5.24 | fiction |
| Kinoshita Junji | 木下 順二 | 1914.8.2 - 2006.10.30 | drama |
| Kinoshita Mokutarō | 木下 杢太郎 | 1885.8.1 - 1945.10.15 | poetry |
| Kinoshita Naoe | 木下 尚江 | 1869.9.8 - 1937.11.5 | fiction |
| Kinoshita Rigen | 木下 利玄 | 1886.1.1 - 1925.2.15 | tanka |
| Kirino Natsuo | 桐野 夏生 | b. 1951.10.7 | fiction |
| Kisaragi Koharu | 如月 小春 | 1956.2.19 - 2000.12.19 | drama |
| Kishida Kunio | 岸田 國士 | 1890.11.2 - 1954.3.5 | drama, fiction, translation, criticism |
| Kishigami Daisaku | 岸上 大作 | 1939.10.21 - 1960.12.5 | tanka |
| Kita Morio | 北 杜夫 | 1927.5.1 - 2011.10.24 | fiction |
| Kitagawa Fuyuhiko | 北川 冬彦 | 1900.6.3 - 1990.4.12 | poetry |
| Kitahara Aiko | 北原 亞以子 | 1938.1.20 - 2013.3.12 | fiction |
| Kitahara Hakushū | 北原 白秋 | 1885.1.25 - 1942.11.2 | poetry, tanka |
| Kitamura Tōkoku | 北村 透谷 | 1868.11.16 - 1894.5.16 | criticism, poetry |
| Kiyama Shōhei | 木山 捷平 | 1904.3.26 - 1968.8.23 | fiction |
| Kiyooka Takayuki | 清岡 卓行 | 1922.6.29 - 2006.6.3 | fiction |
| Kizaki Satoko | 木崎 さと子 | b. 1939.11.6 | fiction |
| Kobayashi Hideo | 小林 秀雄 | 1912.4.11 - 1983.3.1 | criticism |
| Kobayashi Kyōji | 小林 恭二 | b. 1957.11.9 | fiction |
| Kobayashi Nobuhiko | 小林 信彦 | b. 1932.12.12 | fiction, criticism |
| Kobayashi Takiji | 小林 多喜二 | 1903.10.13 - 1933.2.20 | fiction |
| Kōda Aya | 幸田 文 | 1904.9.1 - 1990.10.31 | fiction |
| Kōda Rohan | 幸田 露伴 | 1867.7.23 - 1947.7.30 | fiction, philology |
| Koizumi Chikashi | 古泉 千樫 | 1886.9.26 - 1927.8.11 | tanka |
| Koizumi Yakumo (Lafcadio Hearn) |
小泉 八雲 | 1850.6.27 - 1904.9.26 | travelogues, essays, fiction, Japanology |
| Kojima Nobuo | 小島 信夫 | 1915.2.28 - 2006.10.26 | fiction |
| Kōkami Shōji | 鴻上 尚史 | b. 1958.8.2 | drama |
| Komatsu Sakyō | 小松 左京 | 1931.1.28 - 2011.7.26 | fiction |
| Kometani Fumiko | 米谷 ふみ子 | b. 1930.11.13 | fiction |
| Kondō Yoshimi | 近藤 芳美 | 1913.5.5 - 2006. 6.21 | tanka |
| Kōno Taeko | 河野 多恵子 | 1926.4.30 - 2015.1.29 | fiction |
| Kosugi Tengai | 小杉 天外 | 1865.11.7 - 1952.9.1 | fiction |
| Kubo Sakae | 久保 栄 | 1900.12.28 - 1958.3.15 | drama, fiction |
| Kubota Mantarō | 久保田 万太郎 | 1889.11.7 - 1963.5.6 | drama, fiction |
| Kubota Masafumi | 久保田 正文 | 1912.9.28 - 2001.6.6 | tanka |
| Kubota Utsubo | 窪田 空穂 | 1877.6.8 - 1967.4.12 | tanka |
| Kudō Kankurō | 宮藤 官九郎 | b. 1970.7.19 | screenwriting |
| Kume Masao | 久米 正雄 | 1891.11.23 - 1952.3.1 | fiction, drama |
| Kunikida Doppo | 国木田 独歩 | 1871.7.15 - 1908.6.23 | fiction |
| Kurahara Korehito | 蔵原 惟人 | 1902.1.26 - 1999.1.25 | criticism |
| Kurahashi Yumiko | 倉橋 由美子 | 1935.10.10 - 2005.6.10 | fiction |
| Kuramoto Sō | 倉本 聰 | b. 1934.12.31 [1935.1.1 in family register] |
drama |
| Kurata Hyakuzō | 倉田 百三 | 1891.2.23 - 1943.2.12 | drama, criticism |
| Kuroda Natsuko | 黒田 夏子 | b. 1937.3.23 | fiction |
| Kuroda Saburō | 黒田 三郎 | 1919.2.26 - 1980.6.8 | poetry |
| Kuroi Senji | 黒井 千次 | b. 1932.5.28 | fiction |
| Kuroshima Denji | 黒島 伝治 | 1898.12.12 - 1943.10.17 | fiction |
| Kurumatani Chōkitsu | 車谷 長吉 | b. 1945.7.1 | fiction |
| Kusano Shinpei | 草野 心平 | 1903.5.12 - 1988.11.12 | poetry |
| Kuwabara Takeo | 桑原 武夫 | 1904.5.10 - 1988.4.10 | criticism |
| Kuze Teruhiko | 久世 光彦 | 1935.4.19 - 2006.3.2 | fiction, screen direction |
| Machida Kō | 町田 康 | b. 1962.1.15 | fiction |
| Machiya Ryōhei | 町屋 良平 | b. 1983 | fiction |
| Mafune Yutaka | 真船 豊 | 1902.2.16 - 1977.8.3 | drama |
| Mae Toshio | 前 登志夫 | 1926.1.1 - 2008.4.5 | tanka |
| Maeda Yūgure | 前田 夕暮 | 1883.7.27 - 1951.4.30 | tanka |
| Maekawa Samio | 前川 佐美雄 | 1903.2.5 - 1990.7.15 | tanka |
| Makino Shin'ichi | 牧野 信一 | 1896.11.12 - 1936.3.24 | fiction |
| Maruya Saiichi | 丸谷 才一 | 1925.8.27 - 2012.10.13 | fiction |
| Maruyama Kaoru | 丸山 薫 | 1899.6.8 - 1974.10.21 | poetry |
| Maruyama Kenji | 丸山 健二 | b. 1943.12.23 | criticism |
| Maruyama Masao | 丸山 真男 | 1914.3.22 - 1996.9.15 | criticism |
| Masamune Hakuchō | 正宗 白鳥 | 1879.3.3 - 1962.10.28 | fiction |
| Masaoka Shiki | 正岡 子規 | 1867.9.17 - 1902.9.19 | tanka, haiku |
| Masuda Mizuko | 増田 みず子 | b. 1948.11.13 | fiction |
| Matayoshi Naoki | 又吉 直樹 | b. 1980.6.2 | fiction |
| Matsui Sumako | 松井 須磨子 | 1886.3.8 - 1919.1.5 | stage performance |
| Matsumoto Seichō | 松本 清張 | 1909.12.21 - 1992.8.4 | fiction |
| Matsuo Suzuki | 松尾 スズキ | b. 1962.12.15 | drama |
| Matsuura Hisaki | 松浦 寿輝 | b. 1954.3.18 | fiction |
| Matsuura Rieko | 松浦 理恵子 | b. 1958.8.7 | fiction |
| Mayama Seika | 真山 青果 | 1878.9.1 - 1948.3.25 | drama |
| Medoruma Shun | 目取真 俊 | b. 1960.10.6 | fiction |
| Miki Kiyoshi | 三木 清 | 1897.1.5 - 1945.9.26 | philosophy, criticism |
| Miki Rofū | 三木 露風 | 1889.6.23 - 1964.12.29 | poetry |
| Miki Taku | 三木 卓 | 1935.5.13 - 2023.11.18 | fiction, poetry |
| Minakami Takitarō | 水上 滝太郎 | 1887.12.6 - 1940.3.23 | fiction, drama, criticism |
| Mishima Yukio | 三島 由紀夫 | 1925.1.14 - 1970.11.25 | fiction |
| Mitani Kōki | 三谷 幸喜 | b. 1961.7.8 | drama, screenwriting |
| Miura Ayako | 三浦 綾子 | 1922.4.25 - 1999.10.12 | fiction |
| Miura Masashi | 三浦 雅士 | b. 1946.12.17 | criticism |
| Miura Shumon | 三浦 朱門 | 1926.1.12 - 2017.2.3 | fiction |
| Miura Tetsuo | 三浦 哲郎 | 1931.3.16 - 2010.8.29 | fiction |
| Miya Shūji | 宮 柊二 | 1912.8.23 - 1986.12.11 | tanka |
| Miyabe Miyuki | 宮部 みゆき | b. 1960.12.23 | fiction |
| Miyamoto Teru | 宮本 輝 | b. 1947.3.6 | fiction |
| Miyamoto Yuriko | 宮本 百合子 | 1899.2.13 - 1951.1.21 | fiction |
| Miyao Tomiko | 宮尾 登美子 | 1926.4.13 - 2014.12.30 | fiction |
| Miyazawa Kenji | 宮沢 賢治 | 1896.8.27 - 1933.9.21 | poetry, juvenile literature |
| Miyoshi Jūrō | 三好 十郎 | 1902.4.23 - 1958.12.16 | drama |
| Miyoshi Tatsuji | 三好 達治 | 1900.8.23 - 1964.4.5 | poetry |
| Miyoshi Toyoichirō | 三好 豊一郎 | 1920.8.25 - 1992.12.12 | poetry |
| Mizuhara Shūōshi | 水原 秋桜子 | 1892.10.9 - 1981.7.17 | haiku |
| Mizukami Tsutomu | 水上 勉 | 1919.3.8 - 2004.9.8 | fiction |
| Mobu Norio | モブ・ノリオ | b. 1970.11.16 | fiction |
| Mori Arimasa | 森 有正 | 1911.11.30 - 1976.10.18 | philosophy, criticism, French literature |
| Mori Atsushi | 森 敦 | 1912.1.22 - 1989.7.29 | fiction |
| Mori Mari | 森 茉莉 | 1903.1.17 - 1987.6.6 | essays, fiction |
| Mori Ōgai | 森 鷗外 | 1862.1.19 - 1922.7.9 | fiction |
| Mori Sumio | 森 澄雄 | 1919.2.28. - 2010.7.18 | haiku |
| Morimoto Kaoru | 森本 薫 | 1912.6.4 - 1946.10.6 | drama |
| Morimoto Tetsurō | 森本 哲郎 | 1925.10.13 - 2014.1.5 | criticism |
| Morisaki Kazue | 森崎 和江 | 1927.4.20 - 2022.6.15 | criticism, poetry |
| Motoya Yukiko | 本谷 有希子 | b. 1979.7.14 | fiction |
| Mukōda Kuniko | 向田 邦子 | 1929.11.28 - 1981.8.22 | screenwriting, fiction |
| Murakami Haruki | 村上 春樹 | b. 1949.1.12 | fiction |
| Murakami Kijō | 村上 鬼城 | 1865.5.17 - 1938.9.17 | haiku |
| Murakami Ryū | 村上 龍 | b. 1952.2.19 | fiction |
| Murakami Yōichirō | 村上 陽一郎 | b. 1936.9.9 | history of science |
| Murano Shirō | 村野 四郎 | 1901.10.7 - 1975.3.2 | poetry |
| Murata Kiyoko | 村田 喜代子 | b. 1945.4.12 | fiction |
| Murata Sayaka | 村田 沙耶香 | b. 1979.8.14 | fiction |
| Murayama Tomoyoshi | 村山 知義 | 1901.1.18 - 1977.3.22 | fiction, drama |
| Murō Saisei | 室生 犀星 | 1889.8.1 - 1962.3.26 | poetry, fiction |
| Mushanokōji Saneatsu | 武者小路 実篤 | 1885.5.12 - 1976.4.9 | fiction, drama |
