Zōshigaya Cemetery

History

Burials

• OGATA Gekkō - Japanese painter and woodblock print artist of the ukiyo-e genre
• Lafcadio Hearn - International writer best known for his books about Japan
• Takio IZAWA - Japanese politician
• Kyōka IZUMI - Japanese writer of novels, short stories, and kabuki plays
• Kaita MURAYAMA - Japanese writer and painter
• KATŌ Hiroyuki - Japanese academic and politician of the Meiji period
• Hiroshi KAWAGUCHI - Japanese movie actor
• Matsutarō KAWAGUCHI - Japanese novelist, playwright, and movie producer of the Shōwa period
• Kyōsuke KINDAICHI - Japanese linguist
• KUBOTA Utsubo - Japanese lyric poet
• Kafū NAGAI - Japanese writer, playwright, essayist, and diarist
• NAKAHAMA Manjirō - One of the first Japanese people to visit the United States and translator
• Shōnen MATSUMURA - Japanese entomologist
• MORITA Sōhei - Japanese novelist and translator of Western literature of the late Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa periods
• NARUSHIMA Ryūhoku - Japanese writer and scholar
• NATSUME Sōseki - Japanese novelist of the Meiji period
• OGINO Ginko - First licensed and practicing woman physician of Western medicine in Japan
• Shunrō OSHIKAWA - Japanese writer, journalist, and editor, best known as a pioneer of science fiction
• Yumeji TAKEHISA - Japanese poet and painter
• Seiji TŌGŌ - Japanese artist and painter
• Hideki TŌJŌ - Japanese general of the Imperial Japanese Army, the leader of the Taisei Yokusankai, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan
• TSUNASHIMA Ryōsen - Japanese writer and philosopher
• Raphael von Koeber - German-Russian teacher of philosophy at the Tokyo Imperial University

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