Ueda Akinari, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ueda Akinari

Japanese writer

Date of Birth: 25-Jul-1734

Place of Birth: Ōsaka, Ōsaka Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 08-Aug-1809

Profession: writer, physician, poet, merchant, linguist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Ueda Akinari or Ueda Shusei (?? ??, 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.
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.