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Edition of the Kokin Wakashū anthology of classic Japanese poetry with wood-carved cover, 18th century. Japanese poetry is poetry typical of Japan, or written, spoken, or chanted in the Japanese language, which includes Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese, and Modern Japanese, as well as poetry in Japan which was written in the Chinese language or ryūka from the Okinawa ...
The following is a list of Japanese-language poets. Poets are listed alphabetically by surname (or by a widely known name, such as a pen name, with multiple names for the same poet listed separately if both are notable). Small groups of poets and articles on families of poets are listed separately, below, as are haiku masters (also in the main ...
The Heian period has been referred to as the golden era of art and literature in Japan. [4] During this era, literature became centered on a cultural elite of nobility and monks. [ 5 ] The imperial court particularly patronized the poets, most of whom were courtiers or ladies-in-waiting.
This is a list of poets whose works were included in the Kokin Wakashū, a tenth-century Japanese waka anthology. List. This list is incomplete; ...
Ki no Tomonori by Kanō Tan'yū, 1648 Lady Ise painting by Kanō Tan'yū, 1648 Kiyohara no Motosuke by Kanō Yasunobu, 1648 Fujiwara no Kiyotada by Kanō Naonobu, 1648. The Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry (三十六歌仙, Sanjūrokkasen) are a group of Japanese poets of the Asuka, Nara, and Heian periods selected by Fujiwara no Kintō as exemplars of Japanese poetic ability.
Kaifūsō : the oldest collection of Chinese poetry written by Japanese poets; Imperial anthologies: advancing the Imperial waka anthologies, the earliest imperial anthologies gathered Kanshi, the Chinese poetry which Japanese learned from the Tang dynasty. Three anthologies were edited in the early Heian period: Ryōunshū
A replica of a Man'yōshū poem No. 8, by Nukata no Ōkimi. The Man'yōshū (万葉集, pronounced [maɰ̃joꜜːɕɯː]; literally "Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves") [a] [1] is the oldest extant collection of Japanese waka (poetry in Old Japanese or Classical Japanese), [b] compiled sometime after AD 759 during the Nara period. The anthology ...
Such works had a tremendous influence on later waka poets, and their philosophy of fūtei (風体, "style") has had value for Japanese aesthetics and art generally. [5] Other works of poetic theory include those that are noted for their recording of various anecdotes about waka poets, including Kamo no Chōmei 's Mumyō-shō [ ja ] .