poet Kishi Joō 徽子女王, also Yoshiko Joō 承香殿女御 Jokyōden Joō or 斎宮女御 Saigū no Nyōgo (929–985), middle Heian period Waka poet Yaho Kitabatake 北畠 八穂 (1903–1982), Shōwa-period poet and children's fiction writer Fuyuhiko Kitagawa 北川冬彦, modernist poet and film critic Hakushū Kitahara 北原 白秋, pen-name of Kitahara Ryūkichi 北原 隆吉 (1885–1942), Taishō- and Shōwa-period tanka poet Kitamura Tokoku 北村透谷, pen-name of Kitamura Montarō (1868–1894) late Meiji-period poet, essayist and a founder of the modern Japanese romantic literary movement Takeshi Kitano 北野 武 (born 1947), filmmaker, film editor, screenwriter, comedian, actor, author, poet and painter Kiyohara no Motosuke, 清原元輔 (908–990), one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber Kobayashi Issa see Issa Kodai no Kimi 小大君, also "Ōkimi" (dates unknown), middle Heian-period Waka poet and noble; one of five women among the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals; has many poems in imperial poetry anthologies Yakumo Koizumi 小泉八雲 see Lafcadio Hearn Mantarō Kubota 久保田万太郎 (1889–1963), author, playwright and poet Kūkai 空海, also known posthumously as "Kōbō-Daishi" 弘法大師 (774–835), monk, scholar, poet, and artist who founded the Shingon or "True Word" school of Buddhism, followers of that school usually refer to him by the honorific title "Odaishisama" お大師様 Masao Kume 久米正雄 (1891–1952), late Taishō-period and early Shōwa-period playwright, novelist and haiku poet (under the pen-name of Santei) Kunikida Doppo 國木田 獨歩 (1871–1908), Meiji-period romantic poet and one of the novelists who pioneered naturalism in Japan Sadako Kurihara 栗原貞子 (1913–2005), poet who survived the Hiroshima nuclear holocaust there and became known for her poems about her city Kyoshi Takahama 高浜 虚子, pen name of Kiyoshi Takahama (1874–1959), Shōwa-period poet; close disciple of Masaoka Shiki M Manko 万乎| (birth year unknown – 1724) middle Edo period poet and wealthy merchant; apprentice of Matsuo Bashō Sami Mansei 沙弥満誓 ("novice Mansei"), secular name was Kasa no Ason Maro (fl. c. 720), Buddhist priest and poet; a member of Ōtomo no Tabito's literary circle; has poems in the Man'yōshū anthology Kaoru Maruyama 丸山 薫 (1899–1974) Masamune Atsuo 正宗敦夫 (1881–1958), poet and academic Masaoka Shiki see Shiki Matsudaira Katamori 松平容保 (1836–1893), samurai and poet in the last days of the Edo period and the early-to-mid Meiji period Matsudaira Teru 松平照 also called "Teruhime" 照姫, literally translated, "Princess Teru" (1832–1884), late Edo and early Meiji period aristocrat and skilled waka poet who instructed Matsudaira Katamori in poetry and calligraphy Takashi Matsumoto 松本たかし(1906–1956), Shōwa period professional haiku poet in the Shippo-kai haiku