Japan: Zhang Qing or Saienshi Chosei, one of the 'One Hundred and Eight Heroes of the Water Margin', armed with a staff, looking down from a promontory with a waterfall in the background. He is stripped to the waist and heavily tattooed with the design of monkey king Sun Wukong. Woodblock print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1863), 1827-1830. The Water Margin (known in Chinese as Shuihu Zhuan, sometimes abbreviated to Shuihu, known as Suikoden in Japanese, as well as Outlaws of the Marsh, Tale of the Marshes, All Men Are Brothers, Men of the Marshes, or The Marshes of Mount Liang in English, is a 14th century novel and one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. Attributed to Shi Nai'an and written in vernacular Chinese.