List of Japanese-language Poets - N

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• Nagai Tatsuo 永井龍男, used the pen-name of "Tomonkyo" for his poetry (1904–1990), Showa period novelist, short-story writer, haiku poet, editor and journalist
• Hideo Nagata 長田秀雄 (1885–1949), Showa period poet, playwright and screenwriter
• Nagata Mikihiko 長田幹彦 (1887–1964), Showa period poet, playwright and screenwriter
• Takashi Nagatsuka 長塚 節 (1879–1915), poet and novelist
• Naito Joso (1662–1704), Genroku period haiku poet, a principal disciple of Bashō
• Fujiwara no Nakafumi family name: Fujiwara, see "F" section
• Chūya Nakahara 中原 中也 (1907–1937), early Shōwa period poet
• Nakatsukasa 中務 (912–991), middle Heian period Waka poet
• Nanao Sakaki (1923–2008), poet and leading personality of "the Tribe", a counter-cultural group
• Natsume Sōseki 夏目 漱石 (commonly referred to as "Sōseki"), pen name of Natsume Kinnosuke 夏目金之助 (1867–1916), Meiji Era novelist, haiku poet, composer of Chinese-style poetry, writer of fairy tales and a scholar of English literature; from 1984–2004, his portrait was on the 1000 yen note
• Nishiwaki Junzaburo 西脇順三郎 (1894–1982), Shōwa period poet and literary critic
• Nishiyama Sōin see Sōin
• Yone Noguchi 野口米次郎 (1875–1947), poet, fiction writer, essayist, and literary critic in both English and Japanese; father of the sculptor Isamu Noguchi
• Nozawa Bonchō see Bonchō
• Princess Nukata 額田王 also known as Princess Nukada (c. 630–690), Asuka period poet
• Nōin 能因, lay name: Tachibana no Nagayasu 橘永愷 (988 – c. 1051), late Heian period poet and monk; one of the "Thirty-six Medieval Poetry Immortals"