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 N-S

Name (English)	Name (Japanese)	Dates	Genre
Namiki Gohei (I)	並木　五瓶	1747 - 1808	kabuki
Namiki Shōzō (I)	並木　正三	1730 - 1773	kabuki
Namiki Sōsuke	並木　宗輔	1695 - 1751	jōruri
Nichiren	日蓮	1222 - 1282	religion
Nijō Yoshimoto	二条　良基	1320 - 1388	renga, waka
Nijōin Sanuki	二条院　讃岐	1141? - 1217	waka
Nishiyama Sōin	西山　宗因	1605 - 1682	renga, haikai
Nukada no Ōkimi	額田　王	627? - ?	waka
Ō no Yasumaro	太　安万侶	? - 723	transcription
Ogyū Sorai	荻生　徂徠	1606 - 1728	Confucianism
Ōmi no Mifune	淡海　三船	722 - 785	kanshi
Ono no Komachi	小野　小町	fl. ca. 833 - 850	waka
Ono no Takamura	小野　篁	802 - 852	kanshi
Ōshikōchi no Mitsune	凡河内　躬恒	fl. ca 905	waka
Ōta Nanpo (Yomo no Akara)	大田　南畝 （四方　赤良）	1749 - 1823	kyōka, gesaku
Ōtomo no Ōji	大友　皇子	645 - 672	kanshi
Ōtomo no Tabito	大伴　旅人	665 - 731	waka
Ōtomo no Yakamochi	大伴　家持	717? - 785	waka
Ōtsu no Miko	大津　皇子	633 - 686	kanshi, waka
Ozawa Roan	小沢　蘆庵	1723 - 1801	waka
Rai San'yō	頼　山陽	1780 - 1832	Confucianism
Ryōkan	良寛	1758? - 1831	waka, kanshi
Ryūtei Tanehiko	柳亭　種彦	1783 - 1842	gesaku
Emperor Saga	嵯峨　天皇	786 - 842	kanshi
Saigyō	西行	1118 - 1190	waka
Sakurada Jisuke (I)	桜田　治助	1734 - 1806	kabuki
Santō Kyōden	山東　京伝	1761 - 1816	gesaku
Sei Shōnagon	清　少納言	966? - ?	zuihitsu, waka
Seihakudō Kōun	生白堂　行雲	fl. ca. 1670	kyōka
Shiba Zenkō	芝　全交	1750 - 1793	gesaku
Shikano Buzaemon	鹿野　武左衛門	1649 - 1699	rakugo
Shikitei Samba	式亭　三馬	1776 - 1822	gesaku
Shimokōbe Chōryū (Nagaru)	下河辺　長流	1627 - 1686	waka
Shinkei	心敬	1406 - 1475	renga
Shinran	親鸞	1173 - 1262	religion
Shōhaku	肖柏	1443 - 1527	renga
Shokushi (Shikishi) Naishinnō	式子　内親王	1149 - 1201	waka
Shōtetsu	正徹	1381 - 1459	waka
Sōchō	宗長	1448 - 1532	renga
Sōgi	宗祇	1421 - 1502	renga
Sone no Yoshitada	曾禰　好忠	fl. 10th c.	waka
Sosei	素性	before 850 - after 909	waka
Sugawara no Michizane	菅原　道真	845 - 903	shibun
Sugawara no Takasue no Musume	菅原　孝標 女	1008 - ?	waka