List of Japanese-language Poets - Y

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• Yagi Jūkichi 八木重吉 (1898–1927)
• Yamabe no Akahito 山部赤人 or 山邊赤人 (700–736), Nara period poet with 13 chōka (long poems) and 37 tanka (short poems) in the Man'yōshū anthology; has been called the kami of poetry, and Waka Nisei along with Kakinomoto no Hitomaro; one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals
• Bochō Yamamura 山村 暮鳥 (1884–1924), vagabond Christian preacher who gained attention as a writer of tales and songs for children and as a poet
• Yamanoue no Okura 山上 憶良 (660–733), best known for his poems of children and commoners; has poems in the Man'yōshū anthology
• Sansei Yamao (1938–2001), friend of American poet Gary Snyder
• Yamazaki Sōkan 山崎宗鑑, pen name of Shina Norishige (1465–1553), renga and haikai poet, court calligrapher for Shogun Ashikaga Yoshihisa; became a secluded Buddhist monk following the shogun's death in 1489
• Yamazaki Hōdai 山崎方代 (1914–1985), Showa period tanka poet
• Rie Yasumi やすみ りえ pen name of Reiko Yasumi 休 理英子 (born 1972), senryū poet
• Jun'ichi Yoda 与田凖 (1905–1997), Shōwa period poet and children's book author
• Yokoi Yayū 横井 也有, born Yokoi Tokitsura (横井 時般?) and took the pseudonym Tatsunojō (1702–1783), samurai, scholar of Kokugaku, and a haikai poet (family name: Yokoi)
• Yosa Buson see Buson
• Akiko Yosano 与謝野 晶子 pen-name of Yosano Shiyo (1878–1942), late Meiji period, Taishō period and early Showa period poet, pioneering feminist, pacifist and social reformer; one of the most famous, and most controversial, post-classical woman poets of Japan
• Tekkan Yosano 与謝野 鉄幹 pen-name of Yosano Hiroshi (1873–1935), late Meiji period, Taishō and early Shōwa period author and poet ; husband of author Yosano Akiko.; grandfather of cabinet minister and politician Kaoru Yosano
• Yoshii Isamu 吉井勇 (1886–1960), Taishō and Showa period tanka poet and playwright
• Takaaki Yoshimoto 吉本隆明, also known as "Ryūmei Yoshimoto" (born 1924), poet, literary critic, and philosopher; father of the writer Banana Yoshimoto and cartoonist Haruno Yoiko
• Yoshino Hideo 吉野秀雄 (1902–1967), Showa period tanka poet