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]
^Keene, Donald. 1976. World within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600–1867. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.
^Hamada, Kengi. "About the Author". In Tales of Moonlight and Rain. New York: Columbia University Press.
UedaAkinari 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...
first published in 1776. It is the best known work of Japanese author UedaAkinari. Largely adapted from traditional Japanese and Chinese ghost stories...
was satirized in the story "The Destiny That Spanned Two Lifetimes" by UedaAkinari, in which such a monk was found centuries later and resuscitated. The...
stories in UedaAkinari's 1776 book of the same name, combining elements of the jidaigeki (period drama) genre with a ghost story. Drawing from Ueda's tales...
Spring Rain") is the second famous collection of Japanese stories by UedaAkinari after the Ugetsu Monogatari ("Tales of Moonlight and Rain"). The collection...
in developing the yomihon. Another early pioneer of the yomihon was UedaAkinari, with his Ugetsu Monogatari and Harusame Monogatari. Kyokutei Bakin wrote...
Suikoden (水滸伝, Water Margin). Two yomihon masterpieces were written by UedaAkinari (1734–1809): Ugetsu Monogatari and Harusame Monogatari. Kyokutei Bakin...
). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 86–87. ISBN 978-1442239111. Ueda, Akinari (6 August 2012). Zolbrod, Leon M. (ed.). Ugetsu Monogatari or Tales...
film's musical score to be memorable. The House in the Reeds, a story by UedaAkinari with similar plotline Castle in the Sky, another 1986 anime film with...
first published 1776: Ugetsu Monogatari (Tales of Moonlight and Rain) by UedaAkinari 1776: The Wealth of Nations, foundation of the modern theory of economy...
outsmarting a corpse-eater. A similar story can be found as "Aozukin" in UedaAkinari's Ugetsu Monogatari from 1776. It is said that there was a monk/priest...
noodles (ja) Harusame, painting by Kawai Gyokudō Harusame Monogatari by UedaAkinari Harusame, a traditional hauta (ja:端唄（はうた）), a form of jiuta tune Harusame...
Asai Ryoi (1666) Ugetsu Monogatari (Tales of Moonlight and Rain) by UedaAkinari (1776) The word was popularised in English by Lafcadio Hearn in his book...
studies that suggest that Genzo may have been a tonkori. In addition, UedaAkinari, a Japanese scholar of the mid-Edo period, painted a self-portrait of...
of the eighteenth century, the painter Kimura Kenkadō and the writer UedaAkinari extended the consumption of tea, but with greater emphasis on the veneration...
on the eighteenth-century story "The Carp That Came to My Dream," by UedaAkinari, in which a priest is transformed into a carp for three days before eventually...
July 22 – Jean Senebier, Swiss pastor, botanist (b. 1742) August 8 – UedaAkinari, Japanese author, scholar (b. 1734) August 18 – Matthew Boulton, English...
1819) May 23 – Franz Mesmer, Austrian physician (d. 1815) July 25 – UedaAkinari, Japanese author and scholar (d. 1809) August 10 – Naungdawgyi, Burmese...
popular Japanese theme, often drawn directly from the play. Shiramini by UedaAkinari, in his Ugetsu Monogatari, developed the revenge theme of the play, with...
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