The following is a list of Japanese-language poets. Poets are listed alphabetically by surname (or by 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 list). Years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article. A Abe no Nakamaro 阿倍仲麻呂 (c. 698 – c. 770) scholar, administrator, and waka poet in the Nara period Aizu Yaichi 会津 八一 (1881–1956), poet, calligrapher and historian Kaijin Akashi 明石 海人 (1901-1939), author of poetry inspired by his leprosy Akazome Emon 赤染衛門 (956–1041) waka poet of the mid-Heian period; a member of both the Thirty-six Elder Poetic Sages and Kintō's 36 female poetry immortals (or "sages") of the Kamakura period Fuyue Anzai 安西 冬衛 (1898–1965) poet and co-founder of the magazine Shi To Shiron ("Poetry and Poetics") Arakida Moritake 荒木田守武 (1473–1549), the son of Negi Morihide, and a Shinto priest; said to have excelled in waka, renga, and in particular haikai Ikuma Arishima, 有島生馬 pen-name (together with Utosei and then Jugatsutei) of Arishima Mibuma (1882–1974), novelist, poet and painter; member of the Shirakaba literary circle 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 Asukai Gayū 飛鳥井雅有, also known as "Asukai Masaari" (1241–1301), Kamakura period nobleman and poet; has 86 poems in the official anthology Shokukokin Wakashū B Matsuo Bashō 松尾 芭蕉 (1644–1694), the most famous Edo-period poet, recognized for his works in the collaborative haikai no renga form; now more widely recognized as a master of haiku Nozawa Bonchō 野沢 凡兆 (c. 1640 – 1714), haikai poet and student of Matsuo Bashō C Chiyo-ni 千代尼, or Kaga no Chiyo, (1703–1775), prominent female haiku poet of the Edo period Chūgan Engetsu (1300–1375), poet and Zen Buddhist monk of the Rinzai sect who headed many Zen establishments D Hendrik Doeff (1764–1837), the first westerner to write haiku in Japanese E Eifuku-mon In 永福門院, also written "Eifuku Mon'in", also known as Saionji Shōko 西園寺しょう子, 西園寺鏱子 (1271–1342) Kamakura period poet and a consort of the 92nd emperor, Fushimi; she belonged to the Kyōgoku school of verse; has poems in the Gyokuyōshū anthology F Sadakazu Fujii 藤井 貞和 (born 1942), Japanese poet and literary scholar Misao Fujimura 藤村操 (1886–1903),