Writers from Shimane Prefecture

Japanese novelist and army physician (1862-1922)

Japanese physician, writer, diarist, Roman Catholic convert and Servant of God (1908–1951)

South Korean songwriter and record producer (born 1976)

Japanese legal scholar and bureaucrat (1860-1910)

Japanese writer (1971–)

Japanese film director

Japanese literary critic, impresario and writer (1871-1918)