List of Japanese-language Poets - I

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• Dakotsu Iida 飯田 蛇笏, commonly referred to as "Dakotsu", pen names of Takeji Iida 飯田 武治 (1885–1962), haiku poet; trained under Takahama Kyoshi
• Ikezawa Natsuki 池澤夏樹, 1945), novelist, essayist, translator and poet who stopped publishing poetry in 1982
• Ikkyū 休宗純, Ikkyū Sōjun 1394–1481), eccentric, iconic, Rinzai Zen Buddhist priest, poet and sometime mendicant flute player who influenced Japanese art and literature with an infusion of Zen attitudes and ideals; one of the creators of the formal Japanese tea ceremony; well-known to Japanese children through various stories and the subject of a popular Japanese children's television program; made a character in anime fiction
• Inoue Kenkabō 井上剣花坊 pen name of Inoue Koichi (1870–1934), late Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa period journalist and writer of senryū (short, humorous verse)
• Lady Ise 伊勢 or Ise no miyasudokoro 伊勢の御息所 (c. 875 – c. 938), waka poet and noblewoman in the Imperial court; granddaughter of waka poet Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu; born the Fujiwara no Tsugikage of Ise; lover of the Prince Atsuyoshi; a concubine to Emperor Uda; her son by him was Prince Yuki-Akari; has many poems in the Kokin Wakashū anthology
• Ishigaki Rin 石垣りん (1920–2004), poet, employee of the Industrial Bank of Japan, sometimes called "the bank teller poet"
• Jun Ishikawa 石川淳 pen name of Ishikawa Kiyoshi, Ishikawa (1899–1987), Showa period modernist author, translator and literary critic
• Ishikawa Takuboku see Takuboku Ishikawa
• Ishizuka Tomoji 石塚友二 the kanji (Japanese writing) is a pen name of Ishizuka Tomoji, which is written with the different kanji 石塚友次, but in English there is no difference (1906–1984), Showa period haiku poet and novelist
• Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 (1763–1828), poet and Buddhist priest known for his haiku and haibun; widely regarded as one of the four haiku masters in Japan, along with Bashō, Buson and Shiki
• Itō Sachio 伊藤佐千夫, pen name of Itō Kojirō (1864–1913), Meiji period tanka poet and novelist
• Izumi Shikibu 和泉式部 nicknamed "The Floating Lady" 浮かれ女 for her series of passionate affairs (born c. 976 – year of death unknown, sometime after 1033), mid-Heian period poet, novelist and noblewoman; one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals; known for a sequence of affairs at the court in the capital; close friend of Akazome Emon, rival of Lady Murasaki, and mother of poet Koshikibu no Naishi; poetry praised by Fujiwara no Kinto