feuilletonistEtymologyFrom French feuilletoniste. By surface analysis, feuilleton + -ist.nounA writer of feuilletons.“In 1895, while Japan was busy beating China, and had convinced herself that she could beat the world, one of the Tōkyō papers achieved a success by the publication of a serial noved entitled Asahi-Zakura, by a feuilletonist called Murai Gensai.”