Events •
Chinese poetry in the
Tang dynasty develops into what is now considered to be of the characteristic style known as
Tang poetry, highlighted by the work of
Li Bai and
Du Fu. •
Japanese poetry emerges, and the first
imperial poetry anthologies are compiled • 759 • Japanese general
Otomo no Yakamochi compiles the first
Japanese poetry anthology, ''
Man'yōshū'', containing some 500 poems by Japanese
poets who include the emperor,
nobleman and commoners. • December 24 – Tang dynasty poet
Du Fu departs for
Chengdu, staying with his fellow poet
Pei Di, where he composes poems about life in
his thatched cottage.
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" ==Arabic World==