Renzaburō Shibata

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Renzaburō Shibata (柴田錬三郎, Shibata Renzaburō, March 26, 1917 – June 30, 1978) was a Japanese author and Sinologist.^[1]

He graduated from Keio University^[1] and won the Naoki Prize in 1951 for Iesu no Ei (lit. Descendant of Jesus).

He is famous for Nemuri Kyōshirō, a series of jidaigeki novels.^[2][3] He also published a new Japanese translation of Romance of the Three Kingdoms^[4] and Water Margin.

• Nemuri Kyōshirō (1956)
• Gokenin Zankurō (1976)
• Romance of the Three Kingdoms (1959)
• Water Margin
• Unmeitōge
• Iesu no Ei (lit. Descendant of Jesus)

• Destiny's Son (1962)
• Enter Kyōshirō Nemuri the Swordman (1963)
• Curse of the Blood (1968)
• Nemuri Kyōshirō manji giri (1969)