Su Manshu

Su Manshu was a Chinese writer, poet, painter, revolutionist and translator; his original name was Su Xuanying. Su had been named as a writer of poetry and romantic love stories in the history of early modern Chinese literature. However, he was most commonly known as a Buddhist monk, a poetry monk, "the monk of sentiment" and "the revolutionary monk". Su was born out of wedlock in Yokohama, Japan in 1884. His father was a Cantonese merchant, and his mother was his father's Japanese maid. His ancestral home was in Zhongshan city, Guangdong Province, China. He died at the age of 34 due to a stomach disease in Shanghai.