Kyūsaku Yumeno (夢 野 久 作 Yumeno Kyūsaku ?, Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, January 4, 1889 - Tokyo, Japan, March 11, 1936), whose birth name was Naoki Sugiyama (杉山 直樹 Sugiyama Naoki?), Was a Japanese novelist and writer, active during the Shōwa era. His pseudonym "Kyūsaku Yumeno" literally translates as a person who always dreams; Sugiyama was a person known for his avant-garde and surreal stories, wildly imaginative and fantastic, even bordering on the strange.