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Japanese poetry

literary tradition of Japan

34 dated entries naming Japanese poetry, drawn from 34 separate years between 662 CE and 1129 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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7th century

  • 662Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, Japanese poet (approximate date)source

8th century

  • 731August 31 – Ōtomo no Tabito, Japanese poet (b. 665)source
  • 736Yamabe no Akahito, Japanese poetsource
  • 759Otomo no Yakamochi, Japanese general, compiles the first Japanese poetry anthology, Man'yōshū. It contains some 500 poems by Japanese poets who include the emperor, noblemen and commoners.source

9th century

  • 802Ono no Takamura, Japanese scholar and poet (d. 853)source
  • 822Minamoto no Tōru, Japanese poet (d. 895)source
  • 825Ono no Komachi, Japanese poet (approximate date)source
  • 872Ki no Tsurayuki, Japanese writer and poet (d. 945)source
  • 873Fujiwara no Sadakata, Japanese poet (d. 932)source
  • 875Lady Ise, Japanese poet (approximate date)source
  • 886Ōnakatomi no Yorimoto, Japanese poet (approximate date)source
  • 895Minamoto no Tōru, Japanese poet (b. 822)source
  • 900Ono no Komachi, Japanese poet (approximate date)source

10th century

  • 901January 25 – Sugawara no Michizane, a Japanese poet, is demoted from his aristocratic rank and is exiled to a minor official post at Dazaifu (Chikuzen Province).source
  • 903March 26 – Sugawara no Michizane, Japanese politician and poet (b. 845)source
  • 905Emperor Daigo of Japan orders the selection of four court poets, led by Ki no Tsurayuki, to compile the Kokin Wakashū, an early anthology of Waka poetry.source
  • 920Harumichi no Tsuraki, Japanese poetsource
  • 932Fujiwara no Sadakata, Japanese poet (b. 873)source
  • 938Lady Ise, Japanese noblewoman and poet (b. 875) (approximate date)source
  • 943July 26 – Motoyoshi, Japanese nobleman and poet (b. 890)source
  • 945June 30 – Ki no Tsurayuki, Japanese writer and poet (b. 872)source
  • 949Fujiwara no Nagatō, Japanese bureaucrat and poet (d. 1009)source
  • 954Ōnakatomi no Sukechika, Japanese waka poet (d. 1038)source
  • 966Fujiwara no Kintō, Japanese poet and bureaucrat (d. 1041)source
  • 973Murasaki Shikibu, Japanese poet and lady-in-waiting (or 978)source
  • 976Izumi Shikibu, Japanese poet (approximate date)source
  • 978Murasaki Shikibu, Japanese poet and lady-in-waiting (or 973)source
  • 995Michitsuna no Haha, Japanese female poetsource
  • 996Takashina no Takako, Japanese female poetsource

11th century

  • 1038July 6 – Ōnakatomi no Sukechika, Japanese poet (b. 954)source
  • 1041Ōe no Masafusa, Japanese poet (d. 1111)source
  • 1055Minamoto no Shunrai, Japanese poet (d. 1129)source

12th century

  • 1111Ōe no Masafusa, Japanese poet and writer (b. 1041)source
  • 1129January 29 – Minamoto no Shunrai, Japanese poet (b. 1055)source

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