Japan: Ryutei Tanehiko, writer and novelist (1783-1842). From a version of 'Kuni Bungaku Meika Shozoshu' (Portraits of National Literary Masters), c. late 19th early 20th century

Although a successful writer during his lifetime, there is little concrete information about Ryutei Tanehiko.

Born into a samurai family of lower rank, he began his literary career as a writer of kyoka poetry in the style of Ota Nampo. In 1807 he published the first of a series of gesaku 'playful' or satirical novels. His literary reputation since his death rests on his novel Nise Murasaki inaka Genji (1828), in which he takes up The Tale of Genji theme.

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