The Japanese author index
Use the following menus to display tables with the names of premodern or modern Japanese writers in both English and Japanese. Also included are the author's dates and the main genre or genres in which he or she worked (for Man'yōshū poets, "waka" is a broadly inclusive term). Note that these lists follow the usual Japanese practice of giving the surname first, and that Japanese orthography has been given preference. Emperors are alphabetized by name. As a convenience, spaces have been added to the Japanese versions of the names to indicate the break between first and last names; normally these spaces would not appear.
Premodern Authors
Modern Authors
Premodern authors A-I
Name (English) | Name (Japanese) | Dates | Genre |
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Abutsu-ni | 阿仏尼 | ? - 1283 | waka |
Akazome Emon | 赤染 衛門 | ca. 957 - ca. 1041 | waka |
Akera Kankō | 朱楽 管江 | 1738 - 1798 | kyōka |
Arai Hakuseki | 新井 白石 | 1657 - 1725 | Confucianism |
Arakida Moritake | 荒木田 守武 | 1473 - 1549 | renga, haikai |
Ariwara no Narihira | 在原 業平 | 825 - 880 | waka |
Chikamatsu Monzaemon | 近松 門左衛門 | 1653 - 1724 | jōruri, kabuki |
Dōgen | 道元 | 1200 - 1253 | religion |
Ejima Kiseki | 江島 其磧 | 1666 - 1735 | ukiyozōshi |
Fujiwara no Ariie | 藤原 有家 | 1155 - 1216 | waka |
Fujiwara no Ietaka (Karyū) | 藤原 家隆 | 1158 - 1237 | waka |
Fujiwara no Kintō | 藤原 公任 | 966 - 1041 | waka |
Fujiwara no Kiyosuke | 藤原 清輔 | 1104 - 1177 | waka |
Fujiwara no Masatsune | 藤原 雅経 | 1170 - 1221 | waka |
Fujiwara no Michitsuna no Haha | 藤原 道綱 母 | 936? - 995? | nikki |
Fujiwara no Mototoshi | 藤原 基俊 | ? - 1142 | waka |
Fujiwara no Teika (Sadaie) | 藤原 定家 | 1162 - 1241 | waka |
Fujiwara no Tameie | 藤原 為家 | 1198 - 1275 | waka |
Fujiwara no Shunzei (Toshinari) | 藤原 俊成 | 1114 - 1204 | waka |
Fujiwara no Toshiyori | 藤原 俊頼 | 1055 - 1129 | waka |
Fujiwara no Umakai | 藤原 宇合 | 694 - 737 | kanshi, waka |
Fujiwara no Yoshitsune (Ryōkei) | 藤原 良経 | 1169 - 1206 | waka |
Gidō Shūshin | 義堂 周信 | 1325 - 1388 | shibun |
Emperor Go-Shirakawa | 後白河 天皇 | 1127 - 1192 | imayō-uta |
Emperor Go-Toba | 後鳥羽 天皇 | 1180 - 1239 | waka |
Hattori Nankaku | 服部 南郭 | 1683 - 1759 | kanshi |
Hattori Dohō | 服部 土芳 | 1657 - 1730 | haikai |
Hayashi Razan | 林 羅山 | 1583 - 1657 | Confucianism |
Henjō (Bishop Henjō) | 遍昭 (遍照) | 816 - 890 | waka |
Hieda no Are | 稗田 阿礼 | 650? - ? | oral recitation |
Hiraga Gennai (Fūrai Sanjin) |
平賀 源内 (風来 山人) |
1728 - 1778 | gesaku, jōruri |
Hirose Tansō | 広瀬 淡窓 | 1782 - 1856 | kanshi |
Hōnen | 法然 | 1133 - 1212 | religion |
Hōseidō Kisanji | 朋誠堂 喜三二 | 1735 - 1813 | gesaku |
Hosokawa Yūsai | 細川 幽斎 | 1534 - 1610 | waka |
Ichikawa Kansai | 市川 寛斎 | 1749 - 1820 | kanshi |
Ihara Saikaku | 井原 西鶴 | 1642 - 1693 | haikai, ukiyozōshi |
Imagawa Ryōshun | 今川 了俊 | 1326 - 1414? | waka |
Ise | 伊勢 | ? - ca. 939 | waka |
Ise no Tayū (Taifu) | 伊勢 大輔 | fl. ca. 1000 | waka |
Isonokami no Otomaro | 石上 乙麻呂 | ? - 750 | kanshi |
Itō Jinsai | 伊藤 仁斎 | 1627 - 1705 | Confucianism |
Izumi Shikibu | 和泉 式部 | fl. ca. 1000 | waka, nikki |