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Yoshida Rui 吉田類 (b. June 1, 1949) is an artist, poet, pub writer, and television and radio personality best known for his starring role in the long-running series Yoshida Rui no Sakaba horoki (吉田類の酒場放浪記 Yoshida Rui's Roaming about Pubs, 2003- ), broadcast on BS-TBS in Japan.

Background

Yoshida Rui was born in Niyodo-mura (present day Niyodogawa-cho) in Takaoka, Kochi Prefecture. In his youth, he moved to Paris, France, and studied as a Surrealist painter. He later became an illustrator. By the 1990s, he turned to writing, his main subjects being domestic travel and evaluations of drinking establishments of Japan. On broadcasts of Sakabo horoki and there spinoff Onna sakaba horoki, he is occasionally referred to by comic sobriquets such as "the greatest drunkard to hail from Kochi" and "the man who has drunk for us these ten years."