Yumeno Kyūsaku ( 夢野久作 ; 4 January 1889 – 11 March 1936) was the pen name of Sugiyama Yasumichi ( 杉山泰道 ), an early Shōwa period Japanese author, Zen priest, post office director and sub-lieutenant. The pen name roughly means a person who always dreams. His Dharma name was Goshin-in Gin’en Taidō-koji ( 悟真院吟園泰道居士 ). He wrote detective novels and is known for his avant-gardism and his surrealistic, wildly imaginative and fantastic, even bizarre narratives.
