diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/mecab-python3/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/mecab-python3/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..110d1a57c82
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/mecab-python3/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, mecab
+, fetchPypi
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "mecab-python3";
+  version = "0.7";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "007dg4f5fby2yl7cc44x6xwvcrf2w2ifmn0rmk56ss33mhs8l6qy";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ mecab ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "A python wrapper for mecab: Morphological Analysis engine";
+    homepage =  https://github.com/LuminosoInsight/wordfreq/;
+    license = licenses.bsd0;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ ixxie ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 05b4b9e518b..dd5936460ce 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -11318,6 +11318,8 @@ in {
     propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ six requests ];
   };
 
+  mecab-python3 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/mecab-python3 { };
+
   mox3 = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "mox3-${version}";
     version = "0.23.0";