List of Japanese-language Poets - H

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• Hagiwara Hiromichi 萩原広道 (1815–1863), late-Edo period scholar of literature, philology, and nativist studies (Kokugaku) as well as an author, translator, and poet; known for his commentary and literary analysis of The Tale of Genji
• Sakutarō Hagiwara 萩原 朔太郎 (1886–1942), Taishō and early Showa period literary critic and free-verse poet called the "father of modern colloquial poetry in Japan"
• Hanabusa Itchō 英一蝶 (1652–1724), painter, calligrapher, and haiku poet
• Fumiko Hayashi 林 芙美子 (1903 or 1904 (sources disagree) – 1951), female novelist, writer and poet
• Lafcadio Hearn also known as Koizumi Yakumo 小泉八雲 (1850 – 1904)
• Hinatsu Kōnosuke 日夏耿之介, a pen-name of Higuchi Kunito (1890–1971), poet, editor and academic known for romantic and gothic poetry patterned after English literature; fervent Roman Catholic, co-founder, with Horiguchi Daigaku and Saijo Yaso, of Shijin ("Poets") magazine
• Hiraide Shū 平出修 (1878–1914), late Meiji period novelist, poet, and lawyer; represented defendant in the High Treason Incident; a co-founder of the literary journal Subaru
• Kakinomoto no Hitomaro 柿本 人麻呂 (c. 662–710), late Asuka period poet, nobleman and government official; the most prominent poet in the Man'yōshū anthology
• Hori Tatsuo 堀 辰雄 (1904–1953), Showa period writer, poet and translator
• Horiguchi Daigaku 堀口 大学 1892–1981), Taishō and Showa period poet and translator of French literature; a member of the Shinshisha ("The New Poetry Society"); accompanied his father on overseas diplomatic postings
• Tatsuko Hoshino 星野立子 (1903–1984), Showa period haiku female poet and travel writer; founded Tamamo, a haiku magazine exclusively for women; in the Hototogisu literary circle; haiku selector for Asahi Shimbun newspaper; contributed to haiku columns in various newspapers and magazines
• Hoshino Tenchi 星野天知 (1862–1950), Meiji period poet and martial arts master; a co-founder of Bungakukai literary magazine; 8th Grand Master and a teacher of the Yagyu Shinkage-ryu martial-arts school
• Hosokawa Fujitaka 細川藤孝, also known as Hosokawa Yūsai 細川幽斎 (1534–1610), a Sengoku period feudal warlord who was a prominent retainer of the last Ashikaga shoguns; father of Hosokawa Tadaoki, an Oda clan senior general; after the 1582 Incident at Honnō-ji, he took the Buddhist tonsure and changed his name to "Yūsai"; but he remained an active force in politics, under Shoguns Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu