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 J-M

Name (English)	Name (Japanese)	Dates	Genre
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