Prince Atsumi, or that he was the fourth son of Daigo Tennō; some claim he lived during the reign of Ninmyō Tennō Senge Motomaro 千家元麿 (1888–1948), Taishō and Shōwa period poet Sesson Yūbai 雪村友梅 (1290–1348), poet and Buddhist priest of the Rinzai sect who founded temples Mitsuko Shiga 四賀光子, pen-name of Mitsu Ota (1885–1956), female Taishō and Shōwa period tanka poet Masaoka Shiki 正岡 子規, pen name of Masaoka Tsunenori 正岡 常規, who changed his name to Noboru 升 (1867–1902), author, poet, literary critic, journalist and, early in his life, a baseball player Princess Shikishi 式子内親王 (died 1201), late Heian and early Kamakura period poet, never-married daughter of Emperor Go-Shirakawa; entered service at the Kamo Shrine in Kyoto in 1159, later left the shrine, in later years a Buddhist nun; has 49 poems in the Shin Kokin Shū anthology Shimizu Motoyoshi 清水基吉 (born 1918), Shōwa and Heisei period novelist and poet Shirome (fl. 10th century), minor female waka poet and common prostitute Shizue Iwatsuki (born 1897), who began writing in tanka, a traditional genre of Japanese poetry, and who immigrated to the United States Shunzei's Daughter, popular name of Fujiwara Toshinari no Musume 藤原俊成女、, also 藤原俊成卿女、皇(太)后宮大夫俊成(卿)女, 越部禅尼 (c. 1171 – c. 1252), called the greatest female poet of her day, ranked with Princess Shikishi; her grandfather was the poet Fujiwara no Shunzei Shōtetsu 正徹 (1381–1459), considered by some the last great poet in the courtly waka tradition; his disciples were important in the development of renga, which led to haiku Sōgi 宗祇 (1421–1502), Zen monk who studied waka and renga poetry, then became a professional renga poet in his thirties Nishiyama Sōin 西山宗因, born Nishiyama Toyoichi 西山豊一 (1605–1682), early Tokugawa period haikai-no-renga (comical renga) poet who founded the Danrin school of haikai poetry Sion Sono 園 子温 (born 1961), controversial avant-garde poet and filmmaker Sonome 斯波 園女 (1664–1726), female poet, friend and noted correspondent of Matsuo Bashō Sugawara no Michizane 菅原道真, also known as "Kan Shōjō" 菅丞相, (845–903), Heian Period scholar, poet and politician; grandson of Sugawara no Kiyotomo; also wrote Chinese poetry T Tachibana Akemi, 橘曙覧 (1812–1868), poet and classical scholar Tachihara Michizō 立原道造 (1914–1939), poet and architect Taira no Kanemori 平兼盛 (died 991), middle Heian period waka poet and nobleman; one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals; has a poem in the Hyakunin Isshu anthology; father of poet Akazome Emon Kyoshi Takahama see Kyoshi Motokichi Takahashi 高橋元吉 (1893–1965), Taishō