Kanan Shiroemon

• Other Names: 英華堂 (Eikadou)
• Japanese: 河南四郎右衛門 (Kanan Shirouemon)

Kanan Shirôemon was a Kyoto-based publisher, active from the Genroku era (c. 1688-1704) until the Tenmei era (1780s). His publishing shop-name was Eikadô.

He had relationships with the Osaka publisher Shibukawa Daizô and the Edo publisher Suwaraya Mohei, allowing some number of their publications to be produced and distributed in all three cities.

References

• Yokoyama Manabu 横山学, Ryûkyû koku shisetsu torai no kenkyû 琉球国使節渡来の研究, Tokyo: Yoshikawa kôbunkan (1987), 197, 210n12.