Issei Tanaka

Issei Tanaka (田仲 一成, Tanaka Issei) is a Japanese writer and professor at the Institute of Oriental Culture, Tokyo University, of Japan.

Tanaka is notable for writing about Chinese literature, publishing books that include, among others, The Social and Historical Content of Ming-Ch'ing Local Drama, and Development of Local Plays in the 17th and 18th Centuries,.