Watanabe Katei (渡辺霞亭 ; 18 December 1884 – 7 April 1926) was a Japanese writer who wrote many popular novels under the pen names Hekirurien, Kuroboshi, Ryokuensho, among others. His extensive collection of Japanese fiction from the

Edo period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characte ...

is now housed at University of Tokyo Library.

Works

*Sofuren (想夫憐 "Sympathy of mutual love" – the title is from the name of a piece of Japanese classical music) 1903Joseph Koshimi Yamagiwa, Keiji Inaga ''Annotations'' 1965 Page 455 "Watanabe Katei writer, 1884–1926, wrote many popular novels Sofuren "Sympathy of mutual love" (a title derived from the name of a piece of Japanese classical music), a novel written by Watanabe Katei in 1903, with a second part added in ..." *Uzumaki ("Whirlpool") – filmed several times

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1884 births 1926 deaths 20th-century Japanese novelists 20th-century Japanese male writers {{Japan-writer-stub