Nakamura Kusatao (July 27, 1901 – August 5, 1983) was a Japanese haiku poet. Nakamura Kusatao was born on July 27, 1901 in Amoy, Fujian Province, China, the son of a Japanese diplomat. A few years later his mother brought him to Japan, where he was educated in various schools in Matsuyama and Tokyo. One of those schools was Seinan Elementary School in Tokyo. When returning to that school twenty years later, he wrote perhaps his most famous haiku, reflecting on the falling snow and the passing of the Meiji era: Furu yuki ya / Meiji wa toku / ni narinikeri