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
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