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
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

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