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 J-M
Name (English) | Name (Japanese) | Dates | Genre |
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Jakuren | 寂蓮 | 1139? - 1202 | waka |
Jien | 慈円 | 1155 - 1225 | waka |
Jippensha Ikku | 十返舎 一九 | 1765 - 1831 | gesaku |
Emperor Jomei | 舒明 天皇 | 593 - 641 | waka |
Kada no Azamamaro | 荷田 春満 | 1669 - 1736 | kokugaku |
Kagami Shikō | 各務 支孝 | 1665 - 1731 | haikai |
Kagawa Kageki | 香川 景樹 | 1768 - 1843 | waka |
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro | 柿本 人麻呂 | fl. ca. 685 - 705 | waka |
Kamo no Chōmei | 鴨 長明 | 1155 - 1216 | waka |
Kamo no Mabuchi | 賀茂 真淵 | 1697 - 1769 | waka, kokugaku |
Kan Chazan | 管 茶山 | 1748 - 1827 | kanshi |
Kan'ami | 観阿弥 | 1333 - 1384 | nō |
Karagoromo Kisshū | 唐衣 橘洲 | 1743 - 1802 | kyōka |
Karai Senryū | 柄井 川柳 | 1718 - 1790 | haikai; senryū |
Katō Chikage | 加藤 千蔭 | 1735 - 1808 | kokugaku, waka |
Kawatake Mokuami | 河竹 黙阿弥 | 1816 - 1893 | kabuki |
Keichū | 契沖 | 1640 - 1701 | kokugaku, waka |
Kenkō | 兼好 | ca. 1283 - ca. 1352 | waka |
Kenreimon'in Ukyō no Daibu | 建礼門院 右京大夫 | ca. 1157 - ca. 1233 | waka |
Ki no Haseo | 紀 長谷雄 | 845 - 912 | shibun |
Ki no Kaion | 紀 海音 | 1663 - 1742 | jōruri |
Ki no Tomonori | 紀 友則 | ca. 845 - ca. 905 | waka |
Ki no Tsurayuki | 紀 貫之 | ca. 868 - ca. 945 | waka |
Kinoshita Chōshōshi | 木下 長嘯子 | 1569 - 1649 | waka |
Kitabatake Chikafusa | 北畠 親房 | 1293 - 1354 | waka |
Kitamura Kigin | 北村 季吟 | 1624 - 1705 | waka, haikai |
Kiyohara no Motosuke | 清原 元輔 | 908 - 990 | waka |
Kobayashi Issa | 小林 一茶 | 1763 - 1827 | haikai |
Koikawa Harumachi | 恋川 春町 | 1744 - 1789 | gesaku |
Konparu Zenchiku | 金春 禅竹 | 1405 - ca. 1470 | nō |
Kūkai | 空海 | 774 - 835 | religion, kanshi |
Kyōgoku Tamekane | 京極 為兼 | 1254 - 1332 | waka |
Kyokutei (Takizawa) Bakin | 曲亭 馬琴 | 1767 - 1848 | gesaku |
Kyūsei (Gusai) | 救済 | 1282? - 1376? | renga |
Matsunaga Teitoku | 松永 貞徳 | 1571 - 1653 | renga, haikai |
Matsuo Bashō | 松尾 芭蕉 | 1644 - 1694 | haikai |
Mibu no Tadamine | 壬生 忠岑 | fl. ca. 900 | waka |
Minamoto no Michitomo | 源 通具 | 1171 - 1227 | waka |
Minamoto no Sanetomo | 源 実朝 | 1192 - 1219 | waka |
Minamoto no Shitagō | 源 順 | 911 - 983 | waka |
Minamoto no Toshiyori | 源 俊頼 | 1055? - 1129? | waka |
Minamoto no Tsunenobu | 源 経信 | 1016 - 1097 | waka |
Minamoto no Yorimasa | 源 頼政 | 1104 - 1180 | waka |
Miyako no Yoshika | 都 良香 | 834 - 879 | kanshi |
Motoori Norinaga | 本居 宣長 | 1730 - 1801 | kokugaku, waka |
Mukai Kyorai | 向井 去来 | 1651 - 1704 | haikai |
Muneyoshi Shinnō | 宗良 親王 | 1311 - 1385? | waka |
Murasaki Shikibu | 紫 式部 | 973? - 1014? | monogatari, nikki, waka |
Murata Harumi | 村田 春海 | 1746 - 1811 | kokugaku, waka |