Poets
Left | Right |
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (late C7th) | Middle Counsellor [Minamoto no] Tsunenobu (1016-1097) |
Yamabe no Akahito (active 724-737) | The Hosshōji Lay Priest and Former Chancellor and Palace Minister [Fujiwara no Tadamichi] (1097-1164) |
Middle Counsellor [Ōtomo no] Yakamochi (ca. 716-785) | Middle Counsellor [Minamoto no] Kunizane (1069-1111) |
Consultant Ono no Takamura (802-853) | Monk Saigyō (1118-1190) |
Middle Cousellor [Ariwara no] Yukihira (818-893) | Master of the Dowager Empress Household Office [Fujiwara no] Toshinari [Shunzei] (1114-1204) |
Archbishop Henjō (816-890?) | Former Major Archbishop Jien (1155-1225) |
Ono no Komachi (f) (ca. 833-857) | [Fujiwara no] Ietaka, Senior Third Rank (1158-1237) |
Lord Ariwara no Narihira (825-880) | The Gokyōgoku Regent and Former Palace Minister [Saionji Kintsune] (1171-1244) |
Lord Fujiwara no Toshiyuki (?-901/907) | Tango (f) (dates unknown)[i] |
Ise (f) (877?-940?) | Lord Fujiwara no Kiyosuke (1104-1177) |
Prince Motoyoshi (890-943) | Supernumerary Middle Counsellor [Fujiwara no] Sada’ie [Teika] (1162-1241) |
Monk Sosei (ca. 844-910) | Master of the Palace Repairs Office [Fujiwara no] Akisue (1055-1123) |
Ariwara no Motokata (active late 800s-900s) | The Naka no in Minister of the Right [Minamoto no Masasada源 雅定] (1094-1162) |
Engi [Emperor Daigo] (884-930; r. 987-930) | The Later Hosshōji Lay Priest and Former Chancellor and Palace Minister [Fujiwara no Kanezane] (1149-1207) |
Taira no Sadafun (870?-923?) | Senior Assistant Governor-General of Dazai, [Fujiwawa no] Shige’ie (1128-1181) |
Middle Counsellor [Fujiwara no] Kanesuke (877-933) | Supernumerary Middle Counsellor [Fujiwara no] Toshitada (1073-1123) |
Ki no Tomonori (850?-904?) | Monk Ryōzen [ca. 998-1064] |
Ki no Tsurayuki (872?-945) | Master of the Left Capital Office [Fujiwara no] Akisuke (1090-1155) |
Ōshikōchi no Mitsune (active 898-922) | Murasaki Shikibu (f) (?-1014?) |
Mibu no Tadamine (active 898-920) | Lord Minamoto no Toshiyori [Shunrai] (1055?-1129?) |
Consultant Minamoto no Hitoshi (880-951) | Kii, in service to the First Princess[ii] (mid-Heian period) |
Ōe no Chisato (active 889-923) | Consultant [Asukai] Masatsune (1170-1221) |
Sakanoue no Korenori (?-930) | Monk Shun’e (1113-1191?) |
Kiyowara no Fukayabu (dates unknown) | Lord Fujiwara no Norinaga (993-?) |
Semimaru (dates unknown) | Monk Nōin (988-1051) |
Seishin-kō [Fujiwara no Saneyori] (900-970) | Former Emperor Sutoku (1119-1164; r. 1123-1142) |
Middle Counsellor [Fujiwara no] Atsutada (906-943) | Sagami (f) (1000?-?) |
The Ise Virgin and Junior Consort [Princess Yoshiko (Kishi)] (929-985) (f) | Imperial Princess Shikishi (f) (1149-1201) |
Ukon (f) (active 933-966) | Handmaid Koshikibu (f) (999?-1025) |
Nakatsukasa (f) (912-991) | The Hanazono Minister of the Left [Minamoto no Arihito 源有仁] (1103-1147) |
Minamoto no Sane’akira (910-970) | Minister of Justice [Fujiwara no] Norikane (1107-1165) |
Kentoku-kō [Fujiwara no Koretada/Koremasa藤原 伊尹] (924-972) | Former Emperor Shirakawa (1053-1129; r. 1073-1087) |
Taira no Kanemori (?-991) | Fujiwara no Hideyoshi/Hidetō (1184-1240) |
Minamoto no Shitagō (911-983) | Monk Jakunen/Jakuzen (1118?-?) |
The Mother of Lord Michitsuna (f) (935?-995) | Kojijū (f) (1121-1202) |
Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu (921-991) | Hōribe no Narinaka (1099-1191) |
Kiyowara no Motosuke (908-990) | Lord Fujiwara no Takanobu (1142-1205) |
Minamoto no Shigeyuki (?-1000?) | Monk Jakuren (1139?-1202?) |
Kō no naishi [Takashina no Takako (Kishi) 高階 貴子] (?-996) (f) | Sanuki (f) (1141?-1217?)[iii] |
Former Emperor Kazan (968-1008; r. 984-986) | The Later Tokudaiji Minister of the Left [Tokudaiji Sanesada 徳大寺 実定] (1139-1192) |
Monk Egyō (dates unknown) | Fujiwara no Mototoshi (1060-1142) |
Sone no Yoshitada (dates unknown | Former Middle Counsellor [Ōe no] Masafusa (1041-1111) |
Minamoto no Michinari (?-1019) | [Fujiwara no] Kinhira Middle Captain of the Inner Palace Guards, Left Division (1158?-1193) |
Fujiwara no Nagayoshi/Nagatō (949-1009) | Minister of the Treasury [Fujiwara no] Ari’ie (1155-1216) |
Lord Fujiwara no Sanekata (958-998) | Taikenmon’in Horikawa (f) (dates unknown) |
Lord Fujiwara no Michinobu (972-994) | Major Archbishop Gyōson (1055/57-1135) |
Minister of Central Affairs, Prince Tomohira (964-1009) | A Fool’s Composition [Gotoba] (1180-1239; r. 1183-1198) |
Uma no naishi (f) (949-1011) | Supernumerary Middle Counsellor [Minamoto no] Morotoki (1077-1136) |
Akazome Emon (f) (active 976-1041) | Inpumon’in no Taiyu (dates uknown; active 1130-1200) (f) |
Izumi Shikbu (f) (976?-?) | Kunaikyō (f) (dates unknown) |
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[i] This poet has a range of sobriquets, although she is most commonly known as Tango, in service to former Empress Taeko (Gishūmon’in no tango宜秋門院丹後), as she was a lady-in-waiting to Kujō Taeko (Ninshi) 九条任子 (1173-1239), known posthumously as Gishūmon’in 宜秋門院, who was empress to Emperor Gotoba. Tango’s other sobriets are Tango in service to the Regent’s Household (Sesshō-ke no tango 摂政家丹後), Tango-shōjō 丹後少将 and the Nun Tango (Tango zen’ni 丹後禅尼).
[ii] More commonly known as Kii, from the Residence of Imperial Princess Sukeko (Yūshi-naishinnōke no kii 祐子内親王家紀伊).
[iii] More generally known as Sanuki from the Nijō Palace (Nijō’in no sanuki 二条院讃岐).