Japanese Poetry - Important Poets (premodern)

Important Poets (premodern)

  • Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
  • Ariwara no Narihira
  • Ono no Komachi
  • Izumi Shikibu
  • Murasaki Shikibu
  • Saigyō
  • Fujiwara no Teika
  • Matsuo Bashō
  • Yosa Buson
  • Yokoi Yayū
  • Kobayashi Issa

Read more about this topic:  Japanese Poetry

Famous quotes containing the words important and/or poets:

    “The Americans ... have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication.”
    —W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)

    “I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order;Mpoetry = the best words in the best order.”
    —Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)