The Japanese author index
Dates of birth and death are based on the calendar in effect at the time: the lunar calendar until the second day of the Twelfth Month (nominally December) of 1872, and the Gregorian calendar beginning from January 1, 1873 (the dates from December 3 to December 31, 1872, do not exist in Japanese history). Authors who were born or died around the time of the Meiji Restoration may be given dates based on either or both of these calendars, depending on the source (Sōseki is a good example, and writers like Ozaki Kōyō and Saitō Ryokuu will even be given different years of birth). Much of the information has been checked in multiple sources (where they conflict and I have been unable to determine which is correct, I have usually given precedence to the Shinchō Nihon-bungaku jiten). However, some mistakes may remain and corrections will be gratefully received.
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| Modern Authors |
Modern authors T-Z
| Name (English) | Name (Japanese) | Dates | Genre |
| Tachihara Masaaki | 立原 正秋 | 1926.1.6 - 1980.8.12 | fiction |
| Tachihara Michizō | 立原 道造 | 1914.7.30 - 1939.3.29 | poetry, architecture |
| Tada Michitarō | 多田 道太郎 | 1924.12.2 - 2007.12.2 | criticism, French literature |
| Taguchi Randi | 田口 ランディ | b. 1959.10.03 | fiction |
| Takabatake Ransen | 高畠 藍泉 | 1838.5.12 - 1885.11.18 | fiction |
| Takada Toshiko | 高田 敏子 | 1914.9.16 - 1989.5.28 | poetry |
| Takagi Nobuko | 高樹 のぶ子 | b. 1946.4.9 | fiction |
| Takahama Kyoshi | 高浜 虚子 | 1874.2.22 - 1959.4.8 | haiku, fiction |
| Takahashi Gen'ichirō | 高橋 源一郎 | b. 1951.1.1 | fiction |
| Takahashi Kazumi | 高橋 和巳 | 1931.8.31 - 1971.5.3 | fiction |
| Takahashi Michitsuna | 高橋 三千綱 | b. 1948.1.5 | fiction |
| Takahashi Shinkichi | 高橋 新吉 | 1901.1.28 - 1987.6.5 | poetry |
| Takahashi Shugyō | 鷹橋 狩行 | b. 1930.10.5 | haiku |
| Takahashi Yoshitaka | 高橋 義孝 | 1913.3.27 - 1995 | criticism |
| Takami Jun | 高見 順 | 1907.2.18 - 1965.8.17 | fiction |
| Takamura Kōtarō | 高村 光太郎 | 1883.3.13 - 1955.4.2 | poetry, sculpture |
| Takashina Shūji | 高階 秀爾 | b. 1932.2.5 | criticism, art history |
| Takayama Chogyū | 高山 樗牛 | 1871.2.28 - 1902.12.24 | criticism |
| Takayanagi Shigenobu | 高柳 重信 | 1923.1.9 - 1983.7.8 | haiku |
| Takeda Rintarō | 武田 麟太郎 | 1904.5.9 - 1946.3.31 | fiction |
| Takeda Taijun | 武田 泰淳 | 1912.2.12 - 1976.10.5 | fiction, criticism |
| Takenishi Hiroko | 竹西 寛子 | b. 1929.4.11 | fiction |
| Takeuchi Yoshimi | 竹内 好 | 1910.10.2 - 1977.3.3 | criticism |
| Takiguchi Yūshō | 滝口 悠生 | 1982.10.18 | fiction |
| Tamura Ryūichi | 田村 隆一 | 1923.3.18 - 1998.8.26 | poetry |
| Tamura Taijirō | 田村 泰次郎 | 1911.11.30 - 1983.11.2 | fiction |
| Tanabe Seiko | 田辺 聖子 | b. 1928.3.27 | fiction |
| Tanaka Hidemitsu | 田中 英光 | 1913.1.10 - 1949.11.3 | fiction |
| Tanaka Shin'ya | 田中 慎弥 | 1972.11.29 | fiction |
| Taneda Santōka | 種田 山頭火 | 1882.12.3 - 1940.10.11 | haiku |
| Tanemura Suehiro | 種村 季弘 | 1933.3.21 - 2004.8.29 | criticism |
| Tanikawa Shuntarō | 谷川 俊太郎 | b. 1931.12.15 | poetry |
| Tanikawa Tetsuzō | 谷川 徹三 | 1895.5.26 - 1989.9.27 | criticism, philosophy |
| Tanizaki Jun'ichirō | 谷崎 潤一郎 | 1886.7.24 - 1965.7.30 | fiction |
| Taoka Reiun | 田岡 嶺雲 | 1870.11.21 - 1912.9.7 | criticism |
| Tatematsu Wahei | 立松 和平 | 1947.12.15 - 2010.2.8 | fiction |
| Tateno Nobuyuki | 立野 信之 | 1903.10.17 - 1971.10.25 | fiction |
| Tawada Yōko | 多和田 葉子 | b. 1960.3.23 | fiction |
| Tawara Machi | 俵 万智 | b. 1962.12.31 | waka, essays |
| Tayama Katai | 田山 花袋 | 1871.1.22 - 1930.5.13 | fiction |
| Terada Torahiko | 寺田 寅彦 | 1878.11.28 - 1935.12.31 | criticism |
| Terayama Shūji | 寺山 修司 | 1935.12.10 - 1983.5.4 | waka, drama |
| Tōkai Sanshi (Shiba Shirō) |
東海 散士 （柴 四郎） |
1853.1.11 - 1922.9.25 | fiction |
| Toki Zenmaro (Aika) | 土岐 善麿（哀果） | 1885.6.8 - 1980.4.15 | waka |
| Tokuda Shūsei | 徳田 秋声 | 1872.2.1 - 1943.11.18 | fiction |
| Tokunaga Sunao | 徳永 直 | 1899.1.20 - 19582.15 | fiction |
| Tokutomi Roka | 徳富 蘆花 | 1868.10.25 - 1927.9.18 | criticism, fiction |
| Toyama Shigehiko | 外山 繁比古 | b. 1923.11.3 | criticism |
| Toyoshima Yoshio | 豊島 与志雄 | 1890.11.27 - 1955.6.8 | fiction |
| Tsuboi Shigeji | 壺井 繁次 | 1898.10.18 - 1975.9.4 | poetry |
| Tsubouchi Shōyō | 坪内 逍遥 | 1859.6.22 - 1935.2.28 | criticism, drama, translation, fiction |
| Tsubouchi Yūzō | 坪内 祐三 | 1958.05.08 | criticism |
| Tsuchiya Bummei | 土屋 文明 | 1890.9.18 - 1990.12.10 | waka |
| Tsuji Hitonari | 辻 仁也 | b. 1959.10.4 | fiction |
| Tsujimura Mitsuki | 辻村 深月 | b. 1980.2.29 | fiction |
| Tsuji Kunio | 辻 邦生 | 1925.9.24 - 1999.7.29 | fiction |
| Tsuka Kōhei | つか こうへい | 1948.4.24 - 2010.7.10 | drama |
| Tsukamoto Kunio | 塚本 邦雄 | 1922.9.7 - 2005.6.9 | waka |
| Tsumura Kikuko | 津村 記久子 | b. 1978.1.23 | fiction |
| Tsushima Yūko | 津島 佑子 | 1947.3.30 - 2016.2.18 | fiction |
| Tsutsui Yasutaka | 筒井 康隆 | b. 1934.9.24 | fiction |
| Tōkai Sanshi | 東海 散士 | 1852.12.2 - 1922.9.25 | fiction |
| Ubukata Tatsue | 生方 たつゑ | 1905.2.23 - 2000.1.18 | waka |
| Uchida Fuchian (Roan) | 内田 不知庵(魯庵) | 1868.4.5 - 1929.6.29 | criticism, fiction, translation |
| Uchida Hyakken | 内田 百閒 | 1889.5.29 - 1971.4.20 | fiction, essays |
| Uchimura Kanzō | 内村 鑑三 | 1861.2.13 - 1930.3.28 | religion, criticism |
| Ueda Bin | 上田 敏 | 1874.10.30 - 1916.7.9 | poetry |
| Ueda Miyoji | 上田 三四二 | 1923.7.21 - 1989.1.8 | waka, criticism |
| Umesao Tadao | 梅棹 忠夫 | 1920.6.13 - 2010.7.3 | criticism |
| Umezaki Haruo | 梅崎 春生 | 1915.2.15 - 1965.7.19 | fiction |
| Uno Chiyo | 宇野 千代 | 1897.11.28 - 1996.6.10 | fiction |
| Uno Kōji | 宇野 浩二 | 1891.7.26 - 1961.9.21 | fiction |
| Wada Yoshie | 和田 芳恵 | 1906.4.6 - 1977.10.5 | fiction |
| Wakatake Chikako | 若竹 千佐子 | b. 1954 | fiction |
| Wakayama Bokusui | 若山 牧水 | 1885.8.24 - 1928.9.17 | waka |
| Watanabe Eriko | 渡辺 えり子 | b. 1955.1.5 | drama |
| Watanabe Jun'ichi | 渡辺 淳一 | 1933.10.24 - 2014.4.30 | fiction |
| Watanabe Junzō | 渡辺 順三 | 1894.9.10 - 1972.2.26 | waka |
| Wataya Risa | 綿矢 りさ | b. 1984.2.1 | fiction |
| Yagi Yoshinori | 八木 義徳 | 1911.10.21 - 1999.11.9 | fiction |
| Yamada Bimyō | 山田 美妙 | 1868.7.8 - 1910.10.24 | fiction, poetry |
| Yamada Eimi (Amy) | 山田 詠美 | b. 1959.2.8 | fiction |
| Yamada Fūtarō | 山田 風太郎 | 1922.1.4 - 2001.7.28 | fiction |
| Yamada Taichi | 山田 太一 | b. 1934.6.6 | screenwriting |
| Yamaguchi Seishi | 山口 誓子 | 1901.11.3 - 1994.3.26 | haiku |
| Yamakawa Masao | 山川 方夫 | 1930.2.25 - 1965.2.20 | fiction |
| Yamamoto Fumio | 山本 文緒 | b. 1962.11.13 | fiction |
| Yamamoto Kenkichi | 山本 健吉 | 1907.4.26 - 1988.5.7 | criticism |
| Yamamoto Masayo | 山本 昌代 | b. 1960.8.18 | fiction |
| Yamamoto Michiko | 山本 道子 | b. 1936.12.4 | fiction |
| Yamamoto Shūgorō | 山本 周五郎 | 1903.6.22 - 1967.2.14 | fiction |
| Yamamoto Yasue | 山本 安英 | 1906.12.29 - 1993 | drama |
| Yamamoto Yūzō | 山本 雄三 | 1887.7.27 - 1974.1.11 | drama, fiction |
| Yamamuro Shizuka | 山室 静 | 1906.12.15 - 2000.3.23 | criticism |
| Yamanoguchi Baku | 山之口 貘 | 1903.9.11 - 1963.7.19 | poetry |
| Yamasaki Toyoko | 山崎 豊子 | 1924.11.3 - 2013.9.29 | fiction |
| Yamashiro Tomoe | 山代 巴 | 1912.6.8 - 2004.11.7 | fiction |
| Yamashita Sumito | 山下 澄人 | b. 1966.1.25 | drama, fiction |
| Yamazaki Masakazu | 山崎 正和 | b. 1934.3.26 | criticism, drama |
| Yanagita Kunio | 柳田 國男 | 1875.7.31 - 1962.8.8 | ethnology |
| Yan Ii (Yang Yi) |
楊 逸 | b. 1964.6.18 | fiction |
| Yan Sogiru (Sokuiru) | 梁 石日 | b. 1936.8.13 | fiction |
| Yano Ryūkei | 矢野 龍渓 | 1850.12.1 - 1931.6.18 | fiction, politics |
| Yasuda Yojūrō | 保田 與重郎 | 1910.4.15 - 1981.10.4 | criticism, waka |
| Yasuoka Shōtarō | 安岡 章太郎 | 1920.5.30 - 2013.1.26 | fiction |
| Yokomitsu Riichi | 横光 利一 | 1898.3.17 - 1947.12.30 | fiction |
| Yosano Akiko | 与謝野 晶子 | 1878.12.7 - 1942.5.29 | waka |
| Yosano Tekkan | 与謝野 鉄幹 | 1873.2.26 - 1935.3.26 | waka, poetry |
| Yoshida Ken'ichi | 吉田 健一 | 1912.3.27 - 1977.8.3 | criticism, fiction |
| Yoshida Shūichi | 吉田 修一 | b. 1968.9.14 | fiction |
| Yoshida Tomoko | 吉田 知子 | b. 1934.2.6 | fiction |
| Yoshii Isamu | 吉井 勇 | 1886.10.8 - 1960.11.19 | waka |
| Yoshikawa Eiji | 吉川 英治 | 1892.8.11 - 1962.9.7 | fiction |
| Yoshimasu Gōzō | 吉増 剛造 | b. 1939.2.22 | poetry |
| Yoshimoto Banana | よしもと ばなな （吉本 ばなな） |
b. 1964.7.24 | fiction |
| Yoshimoto Takaaki | 吉本 隆明 | 1924.11.25 - 2012..3.16 | poetry, criticism |
| Yoshimura Akira | 吉村 昭 | 1927.5.1 - 2006.7.31 | fiction |
| Yoshino Hideo | 吉野 秀雄 | 1902.7.3 - 1967.7.13 | waka |
| Yoshino Hiroshi | 吉野 弘 | 1926.1.16 - 2014.1.15 | poetry |
| Yoshiyuki Junnosuke | 吉行 淳之介 | 1924.4.13 - 1994.7.26 | fiction |
| Yū Miri | 柳 美里 | b. 1968.6.22 | fiction |
| Yūki Shin'ichi | 結城 信一 | 1916.3.6 - 1984.10.26 | fiction |
| Yumeno Kyūsaku | 夢野 久作 | 1889.1.4 - 1936.3.11 | fiction |
