Hirosuke Hamada (浜田 広介, Hamada Hirosuke; May 25, 1893 - November 17, 1973) was a Japanese children's book writer. His birth name was Hamada Hirosuke (濱田 廣助). He was the first president of the Japan Juvenile Writers Association. Some of his most well-known works are The Red Oni who Cried (泣いた赤鬼, Naita Aka-oni), A Dream of a Gray Starling (椋鳥の夢, Mukudori no yume) and Dragon's Tears (竜の目の涙, Ryu no me no namida), and a series of works known as Hirosuke's Fairytales (ひろすけ童話, Hirosuke Dōwa). Together with Jōji Tsubota and Mimei Ogawa, he is considered one of the "Three Sacred Treasures of Youth Literature" in Japan.
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