Entitled: "Kinhyoshi yorin, hero of the Suikoden". Yang Lin is a fictional character in Water Margin. He ranks 51st of the 108 Liangshan heroes and 15th of the 72 Earthly Fiends. The novel describes Yang Lin as a man with a round head, large and beautiful eyes, a straight nose, a squarish mouth, a narrow waist and broad shoulders. He is from Zhangde Prefecture. He excels in martial arts and carries an iron spear. Yang Lin is a wandering outlaw. Suikoden, Japanese translation of the classical Chinese novel, Water Margin (Shui Hu Zhuan, sometimes abbreviated to Shui Hu), also translated as Outlaws of the Marsh, Tale of the Marshes, All Men Are Brothers, Men of the Marshes, or The Marshes of Mount Liang, is a novel attributed to Shi Nai'an. Considered one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, the novel is written in vernacular Chinese rather than Classical Chinese. The story, set in the Song dynasty, tells of how a group of 108 outlaws gathers at Mount Liang (or Liangshan Marsh) to form a sizable army before they are eventually granted amnesty by the government and sent on campaigns to resist foreign invaders and suppress rebel forces. It has introduced to readers many of the best-known characters in Chinese literature, such as Wu Song, Lin Chong and Lu Zhishen. Woodcut by Kuniyoshi Utagawa, circa 1826-30.