Waka (poetry)

type of poetry in classical Japanese literature

39 dated entries naming Waka (poetry), drawn from 39 separate years between 816 CE and 1295 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 (died 890)source
825Ariwara no Narihira, Japanese waka poet (died 880)source
844Sosei, Japanese waka poet (approximate date)source
880Ariwara no Narihira, Japanese waka poet (born 825)source
889Minamoto no Kintada, Japanese waka poet (died 948)source
890February 12 – Henjō, Japanese waka poet (born 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 (died 983)source
912Nakatsukasa, Japanese waka poet (died 991)source
922Ki no Tokibumi, Japanese nobleman and waka poet (died 996)source
923Fujiwara no Nakafumi, Japanese waka poet (died 992)source
924Fujiwara no Koretada, Japanese statesman and waka poet (died 972)source
929Saigū no Nyōgo (Princess Kishi), Japanese waka poet (died 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 (died 1011)source
954Fujiwara no Yoshitaka, Japanese waka poet (died 974)source
958Ōnakatomi no Yorimoto, Japanese waka poetsource
974Fujiwara no Yoshitaka, Japanese waka poet (born 954)source
983Minamoto no Shitagō, Japanese waka poet (born 911)source
985Kishi Joō, Japanese female waka poet (born 929)source
988Nōin, Japanese monk and waka poet (died 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 (born 949)source
1024Japanese waka poet Daini no Sanmi, lady-in-waiting to dowager Grand Empress Shōshi, is married to Fujiwara no Kanetaka.source
1041Akazome Emon, Japanese waka poet (approximate date)source

12th century

1104Fujiwara no Kiyosuke, Japanese waka poet (died 1177)source
1143Fujiwara no Motozane, Japanese waka poet (died 1166)source
1155Kamo no Chōmei, Japanese waka poet (died 1216)source
1158Fujiwara no Ietaka, Japanese waka poet (died 1237)source
1166Fujiwara no Motozane, Japanese waka poet (born 1143)source
1176Hachijō-in Takakura, Japanese waka poet (died 1248)source
1196Prince Dōjonyūdō, Japanese nobleman and waka poet (died 1249)source
1198Fujiwara no Tameie, Japanese waka poet (died 1275)source

13th century

1204December 22 – Fujiwara no Shunzei, Japanese waka poet (born 1114)source
1237May 5 – Fujiwara no Ietaka, Japanese waka poet (born 1158)source
1255Masanari, Japanese nobleman and waka poet (born 1200)source
1295Nijō Tameakira, Japanese nobleman and waka poet (died 1364)source