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Tsubouchi Shōyō
Japanese author, critic, playwright, translator, editor, educator, and professor (1859–1935) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tsubouchi Shōyō (坪内 逍遥, May 22, 1859 – February 28, 1935) was a Japanese author, critic, playwright, translator, editor, educator, and professor at Waseda University. He has been referred to as a seminal figure in Japanese drama.[1]
In this Japanese name, the surname is Tsubouchi.
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