Robun Kanagaki

was the pen name of (9 February 1829 – 8 November 1894), a Japanese author and journalist.

Career Kanagaki Robun, the son of a fishmonger, was originally known for light fiction in the gesaku genre. He is said to have met painter Kawanabe Kyosai while writing an account of the 1855 Edo earthquake on the day after it happened. Kyosai's sketch of a catfish, accompanying Robun's text, was Kyosai's first single-sheet ukiyo-e woodblock print. Its commercial success saw Robun producing a sequence of catfish pictures (known as namazu-e). In 1874 the pair collaborated to create what was effectively Japan's first manga magazine, Eshinbun nipponchi (Illustrated News).

He also wrote illustrated biographies, including an adapted biography of Ulysses S. Grant published for Grant's 1879 visit to Japan.

Works (1856) (1856) (1870–76), a parody of Jippensha Ikku's Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige (1871) (1872) (1872) (1874) (1879) (1886)