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Arabic world
Works
Poets
Births of Arabic world poets
Deaths of Arabic world poets
Turkic world
Persia
Persian poets
Germanic and Celtic Europe
Poets
Works
9th century:
c. 800
830s:
880s or 890s:
890s:
Byzantine Empire and Slavic Europe
Events
Poets
East Asia
150
The
Han-shan poet and
Feng-Kan , both part of the Tientai Trio, flourish in China.
China
Japan
Ariwara no Narihira 在原業平 (
825 –
880 ),
waka
poet and nobleman; called one of the
Six best Waka poets and one of the
Thirty-six Poetry Immortals
Fujiwara no Kanesuke 藤原兼輔, also 中納言兼輔 (
877 –
933 ), middle
Heian
waka poet and nobleman; one of the
Thirty-six Poetry Immortals ; has a poem is in the anthology
Hyakunin Isshu , others in several imperial poetry anthologies, including
Kokin Wakashū and
Gosen Wakashū
Fujiwara no Sadakata 藤原定方, also known as "Sanjo Udaijin" 三条右大臣 (
873 –
932 ), father of poet
Asatada , cousin and father-in-law of
Kanesuke ; has a poem in
Hyakunin Isshu anthology
Ki no Tomonori 紀友則 (c.
850 – c.
904 ), early
Heian period
waka poet of the court, one of the
Thirty-six Poetry Immortals ; one of the four compilers of the
Kokin Wakashū anthology
Ki no Tsurayuki 紀貫之 (
872 –
945 )
Heian period
waka poet, government official and courtier; son of
Ki no Mochiyuki ; one of four compilers of the
Kokin Wakashū anthology; provincial governor of
Tosa province (930–935) and later possibly governor of
Suo province
Kisen 喜撰 also known as "Kisen Hōshi" 喜撰法師 (
fl. early 9th century), early
Heian period Buddhist monk and poet
Kūkai 空海, also known posthumously as "Kōbō-Daishi" 弘法大師 (
774 –
835 ),
monk , scholar, poet, and artist who founded the
Shingon or "True Word" school of Buddhism, followers of that school usually refer to him by the honorific title "Odaishisama" お大師様
Lady Ise 伊勢 or Ise no miyasudokoro 伊勢の御息所 (c.
875 – c.
938 ),
waka poet and noblewoman in the Imperial court; granddaughter of waka poet
Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu ; born the
Fujiwara no Tsugikage of
Ise ; lover of the Prince Atsuyoshi; a concubine to
Emperor Uda ; her son by him was Prince Yuki-Akari; has many poems in the
Kokin Wakashū anthology
Minamoto no Kintada 源公忠, also 源公忠朝臣 (
889 –
948 ), middle
Heian period
waka poet and nobleman; one of the
Thirty-six Poetry Immortals , along with his son
Minamoto no Saneakira ; an official in the imperial treasury; has poems in imperial poetry anthologies, starting with the
Goshūi Wakashū
Ōnakatomi no Yorimoto 大中臣頼基 (c.
886 –
958 ), middle
Heian period
waka poet and nobleman; one of the
Thirty-six Poetry Immortals
Ono no Komachi 小野 小町 or おののこまち (c.
825 – c.
900 ), early
Heian period
waka poet, one of the Rokkasen — the
Six best Waka poets ; one of the
Thirty-six Poetry Immortals ; noted as a rare beauty and became a symbol of a beautiful woman in Japan
Ōshikōchi Mitsune 凡河内躬恒 (
898 –
922 ), early
Heian period administrator and
waka poet of the court; one of the
Thirty-six Poetry Immortals
Sakanoue no Korenori 坂上是則 (
fl. 9th century), early
Heian
waka poet; one of the
Thirty-six Poetry Immortals ; has a poem in the
Hyakunin Isshu anthology
Sarumaru no Taifu (
fl. 9th century) 猿丸大夫, also known as "Sarumaru no Dayū", early
Heian period
waka poet; one of the
Thirty Six Poetic Sages ; no detailed histories or legends about him exist, and he may never have existed; some believe he was Prince
Yamashiro no Ōe
Semimaru 蝉丸, also known as "Semimaro" (
fl. 9th century), early
Heian period poet and musician ; some accounts say he was a son of
Uda Tennō ,
Prince Atsumi , or that he was the fourth son of
Daigo Tennō ; some claim he lived during the reign of
Ninmyō Tennō
The
Six best Waka poets in Japan
Sugawara no Michizane 菅原道真, also known as "Kan Shōjō" 菅丞相, (
845 –
903 ),
Heian Period scholar, poet and politician; grandson of
Sugawara no Kiyotomo ; also wrote
Chinese poetry
The Tales of Ise
South Asia
Works
Poets
Decades and years