Writers of the Edo period

Japanese poet (1644–1694)

Japanese writer (1763-1828)

poet and painter from Japan (1716–1784)

Japanese writer

Japanese mathematician

Japanese playwright

samurai (1659-1719)

Japanese scholar and philosopher (1730–1801)

Japanese scholar and official (1657–1725)

Japanese novelist in the late Edo period (1767 - 1848)

was a quiet and unorthodox Sōtō Zen Buddhist monk who lived much of his life as a hermit. Ryōkan is remembered for his poetry and calligraphy, which present the essence of Zen life.

Japanese writer (1734–1809)

Japanese writer (1703-1775)

Japanese philosopher (1583–1657)

Japanese pharmacologist and writer (1728-1780)

Japanese philosopher (1666–1728)

Japanese daimyo (1800-1860)

conventionally ranked as one of the four great men of kokugaku studies, and one of the most significant theologians of the Shintō religion

Japanese Confucianist Philosopher, Pre-Linnaean botanist, physician (1630-1714)

Japanese philosopher

Japanese mathematician

Japanese artist (1652–1724)

Japanese samurai, Neo-Confucianism scholar and rebel leader in the late-Edo period

Japanese scholar

Japanese poet

Japanese philosopher (1746-1821)

Japanese philosopher

Japanese poet and artist (1761–1816)

Japanese philosopher

Japanese writer (1765–1831)

Japanese philosopher (1622-1685)

philosopher (1561-1619)

Japanese Buddhist nun, poet, potter and artist (1791–1875)

Japanese philosopher (1627–1705)

Japanese Mathematician

thumb|upright=1.5|Keichū was a Buddhist priest and a scholar of Kokugaku in the mid Edo period. Keichū's grandfather was a personal retainer of Katō Kiyomasa but his father was a rōnin from the Amagasaki fief. When he was 13, Keichū left home to become an acolyte of the Shingon sect, studying at Kaijō in Myōhōji, Imasato, Osaka. He subsequently attained the post of Ajari (or Azari) at Mount Kōya, and then became chief priest at Mandara-in in Ikutama, Osaka. It was at this time that he became friends with the poet-scholar Shimonokōbe Chōryū (下河辺長流, 1624–1686).

poet

Japanese physician (1810–1863)

Japanese writer (1776–1822)

Japanese artist (1777-1835)

Japanese poet

Japanese mathematician

Japanese mathematician

Japanese philosopher (1618–1688)

Japanese writer (1605-1682)

Confucian scholar (1698-1769)

Japanese dramatist of Kabuki (1816–1893)

Japanese philosopher (1619–1691)

samurai in Edo period (1639–1730)

Japanese scientist (1769-1850)

Japanese poet, fiction writer and samurai bureaucrat of the late-edo period (1749–1823)

Japanese poet and writer

Japanese poet

Japanese mathematician

samurai

Japanese philosopher (1644-1732)

Japanese poet and painter (1761-1832)

Japanese Confucian scholar

Japanese mathematician

Japanese writer (1812–1868)