Murakami Namiroku
Murakami Namiroku | |
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| Born | December 18, 1865 |
| Died | December 1, 1944 (aged 78) |
| Occupation(s) | Novelist, writer |
| Notable work | "三日月" (Mikazuki, Crescent Moon) 1891, his first publication "当世五人男" (Tōsei Gonin Otoko, Five Men of This Generation) 1896, considered his most notable |
Murakami Namiroku (村上 浪六; December 18, 1865 – December 1, 1944) was a Japanese writer known for his popular fiction frequently set in the Edo period featuring chivalric gangsters. In 1891, he published his first work Mikazuki (Crescent Moon) under the alias Chinunoura Namiroku (ちぬの浦 浪六), which was well received. He would go on to write more than 100 novels until 1930 and become a prominent writer of the time.
He was the maternal grandfather of Otoya Yamaguchi, the 17-year-old ultranationalist who assassinated Japan Socialist Party chairman Inejirō Asanuma in 1960.