Jippensha Ikku, Japanese Writer(1765-1831)

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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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