Kansuke Naka (中 勘助 Naka Kansuke, 22 May 1885 – 3 May 1965) was a Japanese novelist and essayist.
He was born in Tokyo. He was a pupil of Natsume Sōseki, who arranged the publication of his first novel, the nostalgic depiction of childhood Gin no saji ("The Silver Spoon", 1911-13, tr. 1976 by Etsuko Terasaki) in Asahi Shimbun. He was praised by Tetsurō Watsuji, a leading critic, and also by Zhou Zuoren for his rare willingness to criticise Japanese nationalists.[1] He also wrote Inu ("The Dog", 1922) and Rōkan (poetry, 1935). From 1926-32 he lived in Hiratsuka, but he spent most of his life in Tokyo apart from an evacuation to Shizuoka Prefecture during World War II. He married Kazuko Shimada in 1942.