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- Tachibana Akemi, 橘曙覧 (1812–1868), poet and classical scholar
- Tachihara Michizō 立原道造 (1914–1939), poet and architect
- Taira no Kanemori 平兼盛 (died 991), middle Heian period waka poet and nobleman; one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals; has a poem in the Hyakunin Isshu anthology; father of poet Akazome Emon
- Kyoshi Takahama see Kyoshi
- Motokichi Takahashi 高橋元吉 (1893–1965), Taishō and Showa period poet
- Jun Takami 高見順 pen-name of Takama Yoshioa (1907–1965), Showa period novelist and poet
- Kōtarō Takamura 高村 光太郎 (1883–1956), poet and sculptor; son of sculptor Kōun Takamura
- Chieko Takamura (1886–1938)
- Takarai Kikaku see Kikaku
- Shuntarō Tanikawa 谷川 俊太郎 (born 1931), poet and translator
- Takamure Itsue 高群逸枝 (1894–1964), poet, writer, feminist, anarchist, ethnologist and historian
- Tsugi Takano 鷹野 つぎ (1890–1943), female novelist and poet
- Takuboku Ishikawa 石川 啄木 (1886–1912), tanka and free-verse poet
- Tamura Ryuichi 田村隆 (1923–1998), Showa period poet, essayist and translator of English-language novels and poetry
- Jun Tanaka 田中純 1890–1966), Showa period poet
- Taneda Santōka see Santōka
- Tani Soyo 谷宗養 (1526–1563), renga poet; a rival of Satomura Joha; son of Tani Sobuko
- Shuntarō Tanikawa 谷川 俊太郎 (born 1931), poet and translator
- Tatsunojō, pen name of Yokoi Yayū
- Machi Tawara 俵万智 (born 1962), writer, translator and poet
- Shūji Terayama 寺山 修司 (1935–1983), avant-garde poet, playwright, writer, film director and photographer
- Ton'a 頓阿 also spelled as "Tonna"; lay name: Nikaidō Sadamune 二階堂貞宗 (1289–1372), poet and Buddhist monk
- Shigeji Tsuboi 壺井繁治 (1897–1975)
- Jun Tsuji 辻 潤 (1884–1944), author, poet, essayist, musician and bohemian
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