pen name of Kimitake Hiraoka 平岡 公威 (1925–1970), author, poet and playwright Kenji Miyazawa 宮沢 賢治 (1896–1933), early Shōwa period poet and author of children's literature Tatsuji Miyoshi 三好達治 1900–1964), Shōwa period literary critic, editor and poet Mizuta Masahide 17th century, Edo period poet and samurai who studied under Basho Mori Ōgai 森 鷗外 / 森 鴎外 (1862–1922) physician, translator, novelist and poet Motoori Norinaga 本居宣長 (1730–1801) Edo-period scholar of Kokugaku, physician and poet Munenaga 宗良 親王 (1311 – c. 1385) Nanboku-chō period imperial prince (eighth son of Emperor Godaigo) and poet of the Nijō poetic school who is known for his compilation of the Shin'yō Wakashū poetry anthology Murasaki Shikibu 紫 式 部, not her real name, which is unknown; often called "Lady Murasaki" (c. 973 – c. 1014 or 1025), Heian-period novelist who wrote The Tale of Genji, poet, and a maid of honor of the imperial court Saneatsu Mushanokōji 武者小路 実篤 實篤, sometimes known as "Mushakōji Saneatsu"; other pen-names included "Musha" and "Futo-o" (1885–1976), late Taishō period and Shōwa-period novelist, playwright, poet, artist and philosopher N Nagai Tatsuo 永井龍男, used the pen-name of "Tomonkyo" for his poetry (1904–1990), Shōwa-period novelist, short-story writer, haiku poet, editor and journalist Hideo Nagata 長田秀雄 (1885–1949), Shōwa-period poet, playwright and screenwriter Nagata Mikihiko 長田幹彦 (1887–1964), Shōwa-period poet, playwright and screenwriter Takashi Nagatsuka 長塚 節 (1879–1915), poet and novelist Naitō Jōsō (1662–1704), Genroku-era haiku poet, a principal disciple of Bashō Fujiwara no Nakafumi family name: Fujiwara, see "F" section Chūya Nakahara 中原 中也 (1907–1937), early Shōwa-period poet Nakatsukasa 中務 (912–991), middle Heian-period Waka poet Nanao Sakaki (1923–2008), poet and leading personality of "the Tribe", a counter-cultural group Natsume Sōseki 夏目 漱石 (commonly referred to as "Sōseki"), pen name of Natsume Kinnosuke 夏目金之助 (1867–1916), Meiji-era novelist, haiku poet, composer of Chinese-style poetry, writer of fairy tales and a scholar of English literature; from 1984–2004, his portrait was on the 1000 yen note Nishiwaki Junzaburo 西脇順三郎 (1894–1982), Shōwa-period poet and literary critic Nishiyama Sōin see Sōin Yone Noguchi 野口米次郎 (1875–1947), poet, fiction writer, essayist, and literary critic in both English and Japanese; father of the sculptor Isamu Noguchi Nozawa Bonchō see Bonchō Princess Nukata 額田王 also known as Princess Nukada (c. 630–690), Asuka-period poet Nōin 能因, lay name: Tachibana no Nagayasu 橘永愷 (988 – c. 1051), late Heian-period poet and monk; one of the "Thirty-six Medieval Poetry Immortals" O Ogiwara Seisensui 荻原井泉水, pen name of