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.

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Premodern authors A-I

Name (English)	Name (Japanese)	Dates	Genre
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