Jippensha Ikku, Japanese Writer
(1765-1831)




Just the Facts:
  • Name: Shigeta Sadakazu
  • Known as: Jippensha Ikku
  • Birth: Unknown Date, 1765, Aoi-ku, Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
  • Death: September 12, 1831, presumably Tokyo, Japan
  • Language: Japanese
  • Who he was: Japanese author of the humorous satire-cum-guidebook Tokaidochu Hizakurige (Shank's Mare along the Tokaido)

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