Famous Waka and Tanka Poets
- Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
- Yamabe no Akahito
- Ōtomo no Yakamochi
- Six best Waka poets
- Henjo
- Ariwara no Narihira
- Hun'ya no Yasuhide
- Kisen
- Ono no Komachi
- Ōtomo Kuronushi
- Izumi Shikibu
- Kūkai
- Ki no Tsurayuki
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Fujiwara no Teika (1162–1241)
- Saigyō Hōshi (1118–1190)
- Minamoto no Sanetomo (1192-1219)
- Emperor Go-Toba (1180–1239)
- Kamo no Chōmei (1155–1216)
- Motoori Norinaga (1730–1801)
- Ueda Akinari (1734–1809)
- Ryōkan (1758–1831)
- Princess Kazu (1846–1877)
- Masaoka Shiki (1867–1902)
- Yosano Akiko (1878–1942)
- Ishikawa Takuboku (1886–1912)
- Saitō Mokichi (1882–1953)
- Itō Sachio (1864–1913)
- Kitahara Hakushu (1885–1942)
- Nagatsuka Takashi (1879–1915)
- Okamoto Kanoko (1889–1939)
- Wakayama Bokusui (1885–1928)
- Orikuchi Shinobu (1887–1953) under the pseudonym Shaku Choku
- Terayama Shuji (1935–1983)
- Tawara Machi (born 1962)
- Yukio Mishima (1925–1970)
- Baba Akiko
- Nakajo Fumiko
- Saito Fumi
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