Hattori Somon

• Born: 1724
• Died: 1769
• Japanese: 服部蘇門 (Hattori Somon)

Hattori Somon was a Kyoto-based publisher. In 1766, he published a copy of the 1721 Chûzan denshin roku with added kundoku marks for aiding in the reading of the classical Chinese in which the text was written.

References

• William Fleming, “The World Beyond the Walls: Morishima Chūryō (1756-1810) and the Development of Late Edo Fiction,” PhD dissertation, Harvard University (2011), 89.