Japanese diarists

Japanese novelist and poet (c.973–c.1014)

Japanese author and court lady

Japanese writer (1763-1828)

Japanese emperor

emperor of Japan

poet and court noble (1162–1241)

95th emperor of Japan (r. 1308–1318)

Japanese poet

Japanese novelist in the late Edo period (1767 - 1848)

Japanese nobleman of the Heian period (966-1028)

Japanese writer and journalist (1871–1908)

10th-century Japanese poet

Japanese poet and author

11th-century Japanese author

Abutsu-ni (阿仏尼, c. 12221283; the -ni suffix means "nun") was a Japanese poet and nun. She served as a lady-in-waiting to Princess Kuniko, later known as Empress Ankamon-in. In approximately 1250 she married fellow poet Fujiwara no Tameie. She had two children with him. Following his death in 1275, she became a nun. A dispute over her son's inheritance led her, in either 1277 or 1279, to travel from Kyoto to Kamakura in order to plead on her son's behalf. Her account of this journey, told in poems and letters, was published as Izayoi nikki (Diary of the Waning Moon or Journal of the Sixteenth-N

Japanese calligrapher (1565-1614)

Japanese noble

(February 21, 1173 – February 11, 1232) was a Japanese Buddhist monk active during the Kamakura period who also went by the name Kōben (, Chinese: 高辨, Gāo Biàn). He was a contemporary of Jōkei and Hōnen.

Japanese samurai

Japanese lady-in-waiting in the mid 1200s.

Japanese samurai (1555–1600)

Japanese diplomat

Japanese painter (1736-1802)

Japanese noble

Japanese noble

Japanese noble