Ugetsu Monogatari: Tales of Moonlight and Rain

by Ueda Akinari

113 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 20, 2026

About the author

Ueda Akinari or Ueda Shūsei (上田 秋成) was a Japanese author, scholar and waka poet, and a prominent literary figure in 18th century Japan. He was an early writer in the yomihon genre and his two masterpieces, Ugetsu Monogatari ("Tales of Rain and the Moon") and Harusame Monogatari ("Tales of Spring Rain"), are central to the canon of Japanese literature.