Born at Ōta in Mino (Minokamo, Gifu) into the family of an Owari domain official.
He graduated from the University of Tokyo and began teaching at the Tokyo Senmon Gakkō (later Waseda).
He wrote Shōsetsu Shinzui (The Essence of the Novel), advocating realism that portrays the human heart as it is, and the novel Tōsei Shosei Katagi.
He founded the magazine Waseda Bungaku.
With Shimamura Hōgetsu and others he founded the Bungei Kyōkai to launch a new theatre.
He completed his long-laboured translation of the complete works of Shakespeare.
He died at Atami in Shizuoka.
Shimamura HōgetsuFutabatei ShimeiKōda RohanKitamura TokokuMatsui Sumako
Shimoda UtakoKomura JutarōUeki EmoriMikimoto KōkichiKanō JigorōŌyama SutematsuUchimura KanzōTanabe Sakurō
People of the Meiji period ・ People by period
Based on facts found in textbooks and biographies. Uncertain points are marked as such.