Genshō Imanari

{{Short description|Japanese scholar (1925–2020)}}

{{Nihongo|Genshō Imanari|今成 元昭|Imanari Genshō|30 November 1925 - 10 January 2020}} was a scholar of Japanese literature, specializing in Buddhist literature, Japanese medieval war literature and setsuwa. He is a professor emeritus at Rissho University, Japan.

He was born in Tokyo, and graduated from the department of literature of Waseda University. He completed his master's degree from the same university in the year 1951, and completed his PhD in November 1983 from Waseda University. Subsequently, he worked at Kokushikan University,{{Cite journal | url=http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110007003440 | title=水原一著「平家物語の形成」 | journal=駒沢国文 | date=May 1972 | issue=9 | pages=90–92 | last1=元昭 | first1=今成 }} and later at Rissho University[http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110000476404 近藤信義「今成元昭先生をお送りする」] until he retired from that university in 1996.

He died on 10 January 2020, aged 94.{{Cite web|script-title=ja:今成元昭氏（立正大名誉教授、日蓮宗正法寺住職）|url=https://www.chugainippoh.co.jp/article/contents/obituaries/20200122-002.html|work=chugainippoh.co.jp|date=2020-01-20|access-date=2020-02-04|archive-date=2020-01-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200125022630/https://www.chugainippoh.co.jp/article/contents/obituaries/20200122-002.html|url-status=dead}}