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Waka (poetry)

type of poetry in classical Japanese literature

45 dated entries naming Waka (poetry), drawn from 45 separate years between 816 CE and 1320 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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9th century

  • 816Henjō, Japanese waka poet (d. 890)source
  • 825Ariwara no Narihira, Japanese waka poet (d. 880)source
  • 844Sosei, Japanese waka poet (approximate date)source
  • 880Ariwara no Narihira, Japanese waka poet (b. 825)source
  • 889Minamoto no Kintada, Japanese waka poet (d. 948)source
  • 890February 12 – Henjō, Japanese waka poet (b. 816)source

10th century

  • 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
  • 911Minamoto no Shitagō, Japanese waka poet (d. 983)source
  • 912Nakatsukasa, Japanese waka poet (d. 991)source
  • 922Ki no Tokibumi, Japanese nobleman and waka poet (d. 996)source
  • 923Fujiwara no Nakafumi, Japanese waka poet (d. 992)source
  • 924Fujiwara no Koretada, Japanese statesman and waka poet (d. 972)source
  • 929Saigū no Nyōgo (Princess Kishi), Japanese waka poet (d. 985)source
  • 939Fujiwara no Takamitsu, Japanese waka poet (approximate date)source
  • 948Minamoto no Kintada, a Japanese official and waka poet, dies. He is a respected nobleman at the imperial court and a member of the Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry.source
  • 949Uma no Naishi, Japanese nobleman and waka poet (d. 1011)source
  • 954Fujiwara no Yoshitaka, Japanese waka poet (d. 974)source
  • 958Ōnakatomi no Yorimoto, Japanese waka poetsource
  • 974Fujiwara no Yoshitaka, Japanese waka poet (b. 954)source
  • 983Minamoto no Shitagō, Japanese waka poet (b. 911)source
  • 985Kishi Joō, Japanese female waka poet (b. 929)source
  • 988Nōin, Japanese monk and waka poet (d. 1051)source
  • 994Fujiwara no Takamitsu, Japanese waka poetsource

11th century

  • 1005The Shūi Wakashū ("Collection of Gleanings"), an anthology of waka (poetry), is compiled by ex-Emperor Kazan of Japan (approximate date).source
  • 1011Uma no Naishi, Japanese waka poet (b. 949)source
  • 1024Japanese waka poet Daini no Sanmi, lady-in-waiting to dowager Grand Empress Shōshi, is married to Fujiwara no Kanetaka.source
  • 1025Koshikibu no Naishi, Japanese waka poet and lady-in-waiting (b. c.999)source
  • 1041Akazome Emon, Japanese waka poet (approximate date)source
  • 1090Dōin (Fujiwara no Atsuyori), Japanese waka poet (d. 1179)source

12th century

  • 1104Fujiwara no Kiyosuke, Japanese waka poet (d. 1177)source
  • 1143Fujiwara no Motozane, Japanese waka poet (d. 1166)source
  • 1155Kamo no Chōmei, Japanese waka poet (d. 1216)source
  • 1158Fujiwara no Ietaka, Japanese waka poet (d. 1237)source
  • 1166Fujiwara no Motozane, Japanese waka poet (b. 1143)source
  • 1170Asukai Masatsune, Japanese waka poet and writer (d. 1221)source
  • 1176Hachijō-in Takakura, Japanese waka poet (d. 1248)source
  • 1194Saionji Saneuji, Japanese nobleman and waka poet (d. 1269)source
  • 1196Prince Dōjonyūdō, Japanese nobleman and waka poet (d. 1249)source
  • 1198Fujiwara no Tameie, Japanese waka poet (d. 1275)source

13th century

  • 1204December 22 – Fujiwara no Shunzei, Japanese waka poet (b. 1114)source
  • 1237May 5 – Fujiwara no Ietaka, Japanese waka poet (b. 1158)source
  • 1255Masanari, Japanese nobleman and waka poet (b. 1200)source
  • 1264Fujiwara no Ieyoshi, Japanese waka poet (b. 1192)source
  • 1295Nijō Tameakira, Japanese nobleman and waka poet (d. 1364)source

14th century

  • 1320Nijō Yoshimoto, Japanese nobleman and waka poet (d. 1388)source

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