Famous People with Name Ueda

Ueda Akinari            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Ueda Akinari: was a Japanese author, scholar and waka poet, and perhaps the most prominent literary figure in eighteenth century Japan. He was an early writer in the yomihon genre and his two masterpieces, Tales of Moonlight and Rain (Ugetsu monogatari) and Tales of Spring Rain (Harusame monogatari), are central to the canon of Japanese literature.

Shoji Ueda            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Shoji Ueda: was a photographer of Tottori, Japan, who combined surrealist compositional elements with realistic depiction. Most of the work for which Ueda is widely known was photographed within a strip of about 350 km running from Igumi (on the border of Tottori and Hyogo) to Hagi (Yamaguchi).[1]

Bin Ueda            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Bin Ueda: was a Japanese author.Tokyo, he graduated from Tokyo Imperial University. His major work is Kaichoon ???(The Sound of the Tide, 1905), a collection of translations from Western Poets by Ueda himself.

Makoto Ueda            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Makoto Ueda: an editor and architecture critic.After graduating in French literature from Waseda University, Ueda worked as an editor of architectural magazines, notably as chief editor of Toshi Jutaku.

Haruka Ueda            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Haruka Ueda: a Japanese freestyle swimmer.

Isamu Ueda            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Isamu Ueda: a Japanese politician of the New Komeito Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Yokohama, Kanagawa and graduate of the University of Tokyo, he worked at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries from 1981 to 1993. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1993.