8th century in poetry explained
East Asia
Events
Chinese Poets
- Wang Wei (701 - 761), Tang dynasty Chinese poet, musician, painter and statesman
- Li Bai (701 - 762), Chinese poet, one of the "Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup"
- Cui Hao (704 - 754), Chinese poet especially of women, frontier outposts, and natural scenery
- Qian Qi (710 - 782), Chinese poet
- Du Fu (712 - 770), Chinese poet especially of historical subjects
- Wei Yingwu (737 - 792), Chinese poet whose works are included in the Three Hundred Tang Poems
- Quan Deyu (759 - 818), chancellor of the Tang dynasty and poet
- Han Yu (768 - 824), a precursor of Neo-Confucianism as well as an essayist and poet
- Xue Tao (768 - 831), female Chinese poet
- Bai Juyi (772 - 846), Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty, writing poems themed around his responsibilities as a governor; renowned in Japan as well
- Liu Yuxi (772 - 842), Chinese poet, philosopher, and essayist
- Liu Zongyuan (773 - 819), Chinese writer and poet
- Jia Dao (779 - 843), Chinese poet of discursive gushi and lyric jintishi
- Yuan Zhen (779 - 831), Chinese writer and poet of the middle Tang dynasty known for his work Yingying's Biography
- Li He (790 - 816), Chinese poet of the late Tang dynasty, known for his unconventional and imaginative style
- Lu Tong (790 - 835), Chinese poet of the late Tang dynasty, known for his tea poems
- Niu Yingzhen, Chinese poet of the late Tang dynasty
Japanese Poets
- Abe no Nakamaro 阿倍仲麻呂 (c. 698 - c. 770), scholar, administrator, and waka poet in the Nara period (surname: Abe)
- Fujiwara no Hamanari 藤原 浜成 (724 - 790), poet and a nobleman of the Nara period; best known for Kakyō Hyōshiki, the oldest extant piece of Japanese poetic criticism, in which he attempts to apply phonetic rules of Chinese poetry to Japanese poetry; son of Fujiwara no Maro
- Fujiwara no Sadakata 藤原定方, also known as "Sanjo Udaijin" 三条右大臣 (873 - 932), father of poet Asatada, cousin and father-in-law of Kanesuke; has a poem in Hyakunin Isshu anthology
- Kakinomoto no Hitomaro 柿本 人麻呂 (c. 662 - 710), late Asuka period poet, nobleman and government official; the most prominent poet in the Man'yōshū anthology
- Lady Kasa 笠女郎 (fl. early 8th century) waka poet, a woman
- Kūkai 空海, also known posthumously as "Kōbō-Daishi" 弘法大師 (774 - 835), monk, scholar, poet, and artist who founded the Shingon or "True Word" school of Buddhism, followers of that school usually refer to him by the honorific title "Odaishisama" お大師様
- Empress Jitō 持統天皇 (645 - 703; 702 in the lunisolar calendar used in Japan until 1873), 41st imperial ruler, fourth empress and a poet
- Ōtomo no Sakanoe no Iratsume (c. 700 - 750), Japanese early Nara period female poet; member of the prestigious Ōtomo clan; has 79 poems in the Man'yōshū anthology (surname: Ōtomo)
- 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
- Sami Mansei 沙弥満誓 ("novice Mansei"), secular name was Kasa no Ason Maro (fl. c. 720), Buddhist priest and poet; a member of Ōtomo no Tabito's literary circle; has poems in the Man'yōshū anthology
- 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
- 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
- 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
Works
- 759? Man'yōshū, the first Japanese poetry anthology
- 772 - Kakyō Hyōshiki 歌経標式 (also known as Uta no Shiki ("The Code of Poetry"), a Japanese text on poetics commissioned by Emperor Kōnin and written by Fujiwara no Hamanari, is completed; the one-volume work "is the oldest extant piece of poetic criticism in the Japanese canon"[1]
Arabic World
Events
Births of Arab poets
Deaths of Arab poets
Europe
Poets
Works
Byzantine Empire
Poets
South Asia
Poets
Works
Notes and References
- Rabinovitch . Judith . December 1991 . Wasp Waists and Monkey Tails: A Study and Translation of Hamanari's Uta no Shiki (The Code of Poetry, 772), Also Known as Kakyō Hyōshiki (A Formulary for Verse Based on The Canons of Poetry) . Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies . 51 . 2 . 471–560 . 10.2307/2719287 . 2719287 . Harvard-Yenching Institute .
