Ōta Nampo

Ōta Nampo - Portrait of Chōbunsai Eishi

Ōta Nampo ( Japanese 大田 南 畝 , actually: Ōta Chojiro , also: Yomo no Akara , 四方 赤 , Neboke Sensei , Yomo Sanjin , Kyōkaen , Shihō Sanjin , Shokusanjin ; born April 19, 1749 in Edo ; † May 16, 1823 ) was a Japanese writer.

Like his father, Nampo was an official of the Shogunate and had jobs in Osaka, Nagasaki and Edo. Although an influential writer, he was never part of the literary scene in Japan. In 1777 he made his debut with the Kanshi collection Neboke Sensei Bunshū (Doctor Schlafmützes poems), which already shows his gift for comic poems. Encouraged by Karagoromo Kisshū , he published the Ameuri Dohei ga Den collection in 1779 , with which he triggered a wave of Kyōshi poetry in Japan. He finally established himself as a poet with the volume Manzei Kyōkashū (One Thousand Generations Kyōka ). On the other hand, two of Nampo's late works, the volume of poetry Shokusan Hyakushū (1818) and the prose collection Ichiwa Ichigen (1820), have remained known.

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• Earl Roy Miner, Hiroko Odagiri, Robert E. Morrell: "The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature" , New Edition Princeton University Press, 1988, ISBN 9780691008257 , p. 216
• Haruo Shirane, "Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900" , Columbia University Press, 2008, ISBN 9780231144155 , pp. 257-58
• Robin D. Gill, "Kyooka, Japan's Comic Verse: A Mad in Translation Reader," Paraverse Press, 2009, ISBN 9780984092307 , pp. 265-66
• Ukyo-e Ōta Memorial Museum of Art - Ōta Nampo

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Ōta is the family name, Nampo the first name.