1. Jūkichi Yagi (1898)

Japanese Poet

Japanese religious poet whose best-known works include Aki no Hitome (Autumn Eye) and Kami O Yobu (Talk to God). He died at the age of twenty-nine and was posthumously recognized...

2. Kiwao Nomura (1951)

Japanese Poet

Kiwao Nomura is a Japanese poet writer critic and lecturer. He is considered one of the driving forces behind contemporary Japanese poetry.

3. Akiko Baba (1928)

Japanese Poet

Akiko Baba is a Japanese tanka poet and literary critic. She also has an interest in Noh drama and her works have been performed at the National Theatre of...

4. Kinoshita Rigen (1886)

Japanese Poet

Kinoshita Rigen was the pen-name of Japanese author Viscount Kinoshita Toshiharu noted for his tanka poetry active in Meiji period and Taishō period Japan.

5. Mokichi Saitō (1882)

Japanese Poet

Mokichi Saitō was a Japanese poet of the Taishō period a member of the Araragi school of tanka and a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist Shigeta Saitō is his first son the...

6. Sadako Kurihara (Unknow)

Japanese Poet

Sadako Kurihara was a Japanese poet who lived in Hiroshima and survived the atomic bombing during World War II. She is best known for her poem Umashimenkana.

7. Kazuko Shiraishi (Unknow)

Japanese Poet

Kazuko Shiraishi is a Japanese poet and translator who was born in Vancouver Canada. She is a modernist outsider poet who got her start in Katsue Kitazono's VOU poetry group...

8. Bokusui Wakayama (1885)

Japanese Poet

Bokusui Wakayama was a Japanese author. Wakayama was a Naturalist tanka poet who was active at the beginning of the 20th century during the tanka revival started by Yosano Tekkan....

9. Rie Yasumi (1972)

Japanese Poet

Rie Yasumi is a Japanese senryū poet a graduate of Otemae University. Her real name is Rieko Yasumi.

10. Sugawara no Michizane (0845)

Japanese Poet

Sugawara no Michizane also known as Kan Shōjō or Kanke was a scholar poet and politician of the Heian Period of Japan. He is regarded as an excellent poet particularly...

11. Takarai Kikaku (1661)

Japanese Poet

Takarai Kikaku also known as Enomoto Kikaku was a Japanese haikai poet and among the most accomplished disciples of Matsuo Bashō.

12. Nanao Sakaki (Unknow)

Japanese Poet

Nanao Sakaki was a Japanese poet author of Bellyfulls and leading personality of the Tribe. He was born to a large family in the Kagoshima Prefecture and raised by parents...

13. Mitsuharu Kaneko (1895)

Japanese Poet

Mitsuharu Kaneko was a Japanese poet.

14. Akazome Emon (1970)

Japanese Poet

Akazome Emon was a Japanese waka poet and early historian who lived in the mid-Heian period. She is a member both of the Thirty Six Elder Poetic Sages and the...

15. Atagi Fuyuyasu (Unknow)

Japanese Poet

Atagi Fuyuyasu third son of Miyoshi Motonaga brothers of Miyoshi Nagayoshi Miyoshi Yukiyasu and Sogō Kazunari was a Japanese samurai who lived in the Sengoku period. He was active in...

16. Sasaki Nobutsuna (1872)

Japanese Poet

Sasaki Nobutsuna was a tanka poet and scholar of the Nara and Heian periods of Japanese literature. He was active during the Shōwa period of Japan.

17. Tazuo Yamaguchi (1966)

Japanese Poet

Tazuo Basho Yamaguchi is a Japanese American poet/filmmaker and a two-time national head to head haiku champion. Master of the English form of haiku and senryū. Born to Edward and...

18. Motokichi Takahashi (1893)

Japanese Poet

Motokichi Takahashi was a poet in Taishō and Showa period Japan. He was born in Maebashi city Gunma Prefecture.

19. Jien (1155)

Japanese Poet

Jien ) was a Japanese poet historian and Buddhist monk.

20. Dakotsu Iida (1885)

Japanese Poet

Dakotsu Iida was a famous Japanese haiku poet from what is now part of the cirt of Fuefuki Yamanashi Japan. Commonly referred to as Dakotsu his real name was Takeji...

21. Sankichi Tōge (1917)

Japanese Poet

Sankichi Tōge was a Japanese poet activist and survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

22. Saishū Onoe (1876)

Japanese Poet

Saishū Onoe was a Japanese tanka poet and calligrapher. Saishū wrote a poetry column for the magazine Shinsei. He also founded the Shazensō Sha in 1905 which stressed clarity...

23. Saitō Chikudō (1815)

Japanese Poet

Saitō Chikudō was a Japanese confucian scholar historian and poet. His real name was Kaoru. His pen name was Chikudō or Bōyōshi.

24. Princess Nukata (1970)

Japanese Poet

Princess Nukata was a Japanese poet of the Asuka period. The daughter of Princess Kagami Nukata became Emperor Temmu's favorite wife and bore him a daughter Princess Tōchi. A...

25. Satomura Shōkyū (Unknow)

Japanese Poet

Satomura Shōkyū became the leading master of the linked verse renga after the death of Tani Sobuko in 1545. Before Sobuoko's death in 1545 Shokyu accepted the famous Joha as...

26. Ishigaki Rin (1920)

Japanese Poet

Ishigaki Rin was a Japanese poet. Her motifs were pots the nameplate on the house and those things people find in their daily life. Instead of using complicated words she...

27. Chieko Takamura (1886)

Japanese Poet

Chieko Takamura was a Japanese poet.

28. Saigyō (Unknow)

Japanese Poet

Saigyō Hōshi was a famous Japanese poet of the late Heian and early Kamakura period.

29. Sansei Yamao (1938)

Japanese Poet

Sansei Yamao – Japanese poet. Sansei Yamo was born in Tokyo in 1938. He studied western philosophy at Waseda University but dropped out before graduation. In the latter half of...

30. Santōka Taneda (1882)

Japanese Poet

Taneda Santōka was the pen-name of a Japanese author and haiku poet. He is known for his free verse haiku.

31. Hiroshi Yoshino (Unknow)

Japanese Poet

Hiroshi Yoshino was a Japanese poet. Hiroshi Yoshino died from pneumonia on the night of 15 January 2014 aged 87 in Fuji Shizuoka Prefecture.

32. Makoto Ōoka (1931)

Japanese Poet

Makoto Ooka is a Japanese poet and literary critic. He pioneered the collaborative poetic form renshi in the 1990s in which he has collaborated with such well-known literary figures as...

33. Fujiwara no Nagatō (1970)

Japanese Poet

This is about the 10th-century Japanese poet. For the 9th-century Japanese statesman see Fujiwara no Nagayoshi. Fujiwara no Nagatō also known as Nagayoshi was a Japanese poet and a court...

34. Yamazaki Sōkan (1465)

Japanese Poet

Yamazaki Sōkan was a renga and haikai poet from Ōmi Province Japan. His real name was Shina Norishige and he was also called Yasaburō; Yamazaki Sōkan was a pen-name....

35. Gyōi (1177)

Japanese Poet

Gyōi son of Fujiwara no Motofusa was a Japanese poet and Buddhist monk of the late Heian early Kamakura periods. Also known as 山科僧正 he is a member of New...

36. Jun'ichi Yoda (1905)

Japanese Poet

Jun'ichi Yoda was a Japanese poet and a leading figure among the Japanese children's book authors during the Shōwa period.

37. Yōko Mitsui (Unknow)

Japanese Poet

Yōko Mitsui was a Japanese poet.

38. Asukai Gayū (Unknow)

Japanese Poet

Asukai Gayū also known as Asukai Masaari was a Kamakura period nobleman and poet. He lived in Kamakura and occupied a high position in the Shogunate. Eighty six of his...

39. Jun Kawada (1882)

Japanese Poet

Jun Kawada was a Japanese tanka poet and entrepreneur active during the Shōwa period of Japan.

40. Kōsaku Takii (1894)

Japanese Poet

Kōsaku Takii was a noted Japanese haiku poet short story writer and author of the celebrated I novel Mugen Hōyō. Takii was born in Takayama Gifu where his father was...

41. Toyo Shibata (1911)

Japanese Poet

Toyo Shibata was a bestselling Japanese poet; her first anthology Kujikenaide published in 2009 has sold 1. 58 million copies. In comparison poetry book sales of 10000 are considered successful...

42. Senge Motomaro (1888)

Japanese Poet

Senge Motomaro was a Japanese poet active during the Taishō and Shōwa periods of Japan.

43. Sesson Yūbai (1290)

Japanese Poet

Sesson Yūbai was a Japanese Zen Buddhist monk of the Rinzai sect. This priest and poet who is considered the first important poet of the Five Mountains.

44. Yamanoue no Okura (1970)

Japanese Poet

Yamanoue no Okura was a Japanese poet the best known for his poems of children and commoners. He was a member of Japanese missions to Tang China. He was also...

45. Sonome (1664)

Japanese Poet

Shiba Sonome was a Japanese zen poet. She was an acquaintance and friend of Matsuo Bashō and their correspondence is a treasure of zen and haiku history. Sonome was known...

46. Ozaki Kihachi (1892)

Japanese Poet

Ozaki Kihachi was a Japanese poet active during the Shōwa period of Japan.

47. Shuntarō Tanikawa (1931)

Japanese Poet

Shuntarō Tanikawa is a Japanese poet and translator. He is one of the most widely read and highly regarded of living Japanese poets both in Japan and abroad and...

48. Yamabe no Akahito (1970)

Japanese Poet

Yamabe no Akahito was a poet of the Nara period in Japan. The Man'yōshū an ancient anthology contains 13 chōka and 37 tanka of his. Many of his poems...

49. Fujiwara no Nakafumi (1970)

Japanese Poet

ujiwara no Nakafumi was a middle Heian waka poet and Japanese nobleman. He is designated as a member of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals. Nakafumi's poems are included in several imperial...

50. Minamoto no Saneakira (1970)

Japanese Poet

Minamoto no Saneakira was a middle Heian waka poet and nobleman. Along with his father Minamoto no Kintada he is designated as a member of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals....