Su Manshu (1894–1918) was a writer, poet, painter and a translator. He was born in 1894 in Yokohama, Japan. His father is Chinese and his mother Japanese. He went back to Guangdong, China when he was five while his mother stayed in Japan. He became a monk when he was 12 years old. Later on he studied in Japan. He mastered many languages — English, French, Japanese and Sanskrit. He died at the age of 34 in Shanghai.