{{Short description|Japanese writer (1932/1933–2025)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} thumb|Tanaka in 2020 {{nihongo|'''Issei Tanaka'''|田仲 一成|''Tanaka Issei''|1932 or 1933 – 29 March 2025}} was a Japanese writer and professor at the Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo.<ref>Asian culture - Volume 16 - Page [https://books.google.com/books?ei=IWSMU8DrGYbp8AWysYFg&id=-oJtAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22issei+tanaka%22+ 219], 1992. "Prof Issei Tanaka, Professor Institute of Oriental Culture, Tokyo University, Japan."</ref>

Tanaka was notable for writing about Chinese literature, publishing books that include, among others, ''The Social and Historical Content of Ming-Ch'ing Local Drama'',<ref>{{cite book|title=Some Did it for Civilisation, Some Did it for Their Country: A Revised View of the Boxer War|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=wWvl9O4Gn1UC&pg=PA223 223]|year=2002|publisher=Chinese University Press|first=Jane E.|last=Elliot}} "Esherick, op. cit., p. 64; Issei Tanaka, "The Social and Historical Content of Ming-Ch'ing Local Drama," in Johnson et al., op cit; Elvin, op cit."</ref> and ''Development of Local Plays in the 17th and 18th Centuries''.<ref>{{cite book|title=Huju: Traditional Opera in Modern Shanghai|page=260|first=Jonathan P. J.|last=Stock}}</ref><!--https://books.google.com/books?id=Pc75G6NAtWEC&pg=PA103 should link to the book but it seems to fail-->

Tanaka died on 30 March 2025, at the age of 92.<ref>[https://www.jointpublishing.com/%E4%BB%A5%E6%96%87%E5%AD%97%E7%95%99%E4%B8%8B%E7%B6%93%E5%85%B8-%E7%94%B0%E4%BB%B2%E4%B8%80%E6%88%90%E7%9A%84%E4%B8%AD%E5%9C%8B%E5%82%B3%E7%B5%B1%E6%88%B2%E5%8A%87%E7%A0%94%E7%A9%B6/ 以文字留下經典——田仲一成的中國傳統戲劇研究] {{in lang|zh}}</ref>

==Works== * 中国祭祀演劇研究. 1981.<ref>"[http://www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/pub/ 刊行物]." Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia. Retrieved on 3 June 2014.</ref>

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==External links== * {{in lang|ja}} "[http://www.japan-acad.go.jp/pdf/youshi/083/issei-tanaka.pdf 文学博士田仲一成君の 「中国祭祀演劇に関する研究」 に対する]" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20130204163556/http://www.japan-acad.go.jp/pdf/youshi/083/issei-tanaka.pdf Archive]). The Japan Academy.

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