Ōta Nanpo
1749
—
1823
Japanese poet, fiction writer and samurai bureaucrat of the late-edo period (1749–1823)
Ōta Nanpo was the most oft-used pen name of Ōta Tan, a late Edo-period Japanese poet and fiction writer. Ōta Nanpo wrote primarily in the comedic forms of kyōshi, derived from comic Chinese verse, and kyōka, derived from waka poetry. Ōta Nanpo's pennames also include Yomo no Akara (四方赤良), Yomo Sanjin, Kyōkaen, and Shokusanjin .
