(1859-1935) was a journalist, writer, poet, and liberal activist.He was involved in , which appears to have forced him into a nomadic lifestyle.He was born Wada Tsuneshige into a family of samurai in Sōma Nakamura han and later married into the Idos, who were an Azabu-stationed samurai family.Reizan is his pseudonym.His wife was Ido Sumi.He graduated from Sendai Teaching College, which in the Meiji period became the Faculty of Education of Tohoku University.Reizan worked as a journalist and an editor-in-chief at various newspapers including Osaka Mainichi Shimbun, Sanyo Shimbun, and Tokyo Yokohama Shimbun.He was a prolific writer who wrote and edited 27 books, the subjects of which ranged from criminal law to Chinese poetry.

External links

• 11 of Reizan's works are viewable at Digital Library from the Meiji Era.
• The website of Reizan's great-grandchild
• Reizan's Chinese poem that appeared in Taiwan Times

Sources

• Wakamatsu, Jotaro. 2002. Reizan - Ido Tsuneshige. Fukushima-Jiyujin, vol. 17. (Reprinted in The Proceedings of Fukushima Jiyu Minken Daigaku Soma Taikai. pp. 49-61.)
• 1992. Kyodo yukari no sakkatachi. Kyoiku Fukushima, vol. 0166. p. 48.