List of Japanese-language Poets - O

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• Ogiwara Seisensui 荻原井泉水, pen name of Ogiwara Tōkichi (1884–1976), haiku poet in the Taishō and Showa periods
• Okamoto Kanoko 岡本かの子, pen name of Ohnuki Kano (1889–1939) author, tanka poet, and Buddhist scholar in the Taishō and early Shōwa periods; mother of artist Tarō Okamoto
• Ōnakatomi no Yoritomo 大中臣頼基 (c. 886–958), middle Heian period waka poet and nobleman; one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals
• Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu, 大中臣能宣 (921–991) one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber
• Ono no Komachi 小野 小町 or おののこまち (c. 825 – c. 900), early Heian period waka poet, one of the Rokkasen — the Six best Waka poets; one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals; noted as a rare beauty and became a symbol of a beautiful woman in Japan
• Saishu Onoe 尾上柴舟 (1876–1957), tanka poet and calligrapher
• Makoto Ooka 大岡信 (born 1931), poet and literary critic
• Shinobu Orikuchi 折口 信夫, also known as Chōkū Shaku 釋 迢空 (1887–1953), ethnologist, linguist, folklorist, novelist and poet; a disciple of Kunio Yanagita, he established an academic field named "Orikuchiism" (折口学, Orikuchigaku?), a mix of Japanese folklore, Japanese classics, and Shintō religion
• Ōshikōchi Mitsune 凡河内躬恒 (898–922), early Heian period administrator and waka poet of the court; one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals
• Ōta Dōkan 太田道灌 (1432–1486), also known as "Ōta Sukenaga" (太田資長 or "Ōta Dōkan Sukenaga" samurai warrior-poet, military tactician and Buddhist monk; said to have been a skilled poet, but only fragments attributed to him have survived
• Ōta Nampo 大田南畝, the most oft-used penname of Ōta Tan, whose other pen names include Yomo no Akara, Yomo Sanjin, Kyōkaen, and Shokusanjin 蜀山人 (1749–1823), late Edo period Japanese poet and fiction writer
• Mizuho Ōta 太田水穂 pen-name of "Teiichi Ōta" 太田 貞, he occasionally also used another pen name, "Mizuhonoya" (1876–1955), Shōwa period poet and literary scholar
• Ōtagaki Rengetsu 太田垣蓮月 (1791–1875), Buddhist nun, widely regarded to have been one of the greatest Japanese poets of the 19th century; potter, painter and expert calligrapher
• Ōtomo Kuronushi 大友黒主, poet, one of the Rokkasen, the "Six Poetic Geniuses"; considered one of the greatest masters of waka poetry
• Ōtomo no Sakanoe no Iratsume (c. 700–750), early Nara period female poet; member of the prestigious Ōtomo clan; has 79 poems in the Man'yōshū anthology
• Ōtomo no Tabito 大伴旅人 (c. 662–731) poet best known as the father of Ōtomo no Yakamochi; both contributed to compiling the Man'yōshū anthology; member of the prestigious Ōtomo clan; served as governor-general of Dazaifu, the military procuracy in northern Kyūshū, from 728-730
• Ōtomo no Yakamochi 大伴家持 (c. 718–785), Nara period statesman and waka poet; one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals; member of the prestigious Ōtomo clan; son of Ōtomo no Tabito, older brother of Ōtomo no Kakimochi, nephew of Ōtomo no Sakanoe no Iratsume
• Ozaki Hōsai 尾崎 放哉 pen name of Ozaki Hideo (1885–1926), late Meiji period and Taishō period poet
• Ozaki Kihachi 尾崎喜八 (1892–1974), Showa period poet
• Ozaki Kōyō 尾崎 紅葉, pen name of Ozaki Tokutaro 尾崎 徳太郎 (1868–1903), novelist, essayist and haiku poet