diff --git a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
index c2d6a643320f..3dbd6282df4e 100644
--- a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
+++ b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
@@ -3324,6 +3324,12 @@
     email = "info+nix@chmist.com";
     name = "karolchmist";
   };
+  kayhide = {
+    email = "kayhide@gmail.com";
+    github = "kayhide";
+    githubId = 1730718;
+    name = "Hideaki Kawai";
+  };
   kazcw = {
     email = "kaz@lambdaverse.org";
     github = "kazcw";
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/text/lv/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/text/lv/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3e96858f9c9c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/text/lv/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, ncurses }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  pname = "lv";
+  version = "4.51";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://debian/pool/main/l/${pname}/${pname}_${version}.orig.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0yf3idz1qspyff1if41xjpqqcaqa8q8icslqlnz0p9dj36gmm5l3";
+  };
+
+  makeFlags = [ "prefix=${placeholder "out"}" ];
+
+  buildInputs = [ ncurses ];
+
+  configurePhase = ''
+    mkdir -p build
+    cd build
+    ../src/configure
+  '';
+
+  preInstall = ''
+    mkdir -p $out/bin
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Powerful multi-lingual file viewer / grep";
+    homepage = "https://web.archive.org/web/20160310122517/www.ff.iij4u.or.jp/~nrt/lv/";
+    license = licenses.gpl2;
+    platforms = with platforms; linux ++ darwin;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ kayhide ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 34dc13fcdab7..33fd17f0d739 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -4689,6 +4689,8 @@ in
 
   ltris = callPackage ../games/ltris { };
 
+  lv = callPackage ../tools/text/lv { };
+
   lxc = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/lxc { };
   lxcfs = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/lxcfs { };
   lxd = callPackage ../tools/admin/lxd { };