Yūkei Tada

Yūkei Tada (多田裕計) was a Japanese novelist and haiku poet born in 1912 in Fukui, Japan. He graduated from Waseda University and won the prestigious 13th Akutagawa Prize in 1941 for his work Chōkō Deruta while working in Shanghai. Later in life, he wrote historical fiction, biographies, and haiku collections, also founding a haiku magazine, before passing away in 1980. 多田裕計 - Akutagawa Prize