Sanjurokkasen

• Japanese: 三十六歌仙 (Sanjuu rokkasen)

The Sanjûrokkasen, sometimes known as the 36 Poetry Immortals, are a group of thirty-six Nara and Heian period poets selected by Fujiwara no Kintô in the 10th or 11th century. They remained an oft-cited standard grouping of famous poets throughout the premodern and early modern periods, down to today.

From the Man'yôshû, Kintô selected Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, Yamabe no Akahito, and Ôtomo no Yakamochi, and from the Kokinshû and Gosen wakashû of the early Heian period, he selected:

• Ariwara no Narihira
• Fujiwara no Asatada
• Fujiwara no Atsutada
• Fujiwara no Kanesuke
• Fujiwara no Kiyotada
• Fujiwara no Motozane
• Fujiwara no Nakafumi
• Fujiwara no Okikaze
• Fujiwara no Takamitsu
• Fujiwara no Toshiyuki
• Henjô
• Lady Ise
• Ki no Tomonori
• Ki no Tsurayuki
• Kiyohara no Motosuke
• Kodai no kimi
• Mibu no Tadami
• Mibu no Tadamine
• Minamoto no Kintada
• Minamoto no Muneyuki
• Minamoto no Saneakira
• Minamoto no Shigeyuki
• Minamoto no Shitagô
• Nakatsukasa
• Ônakatomi no Yorimoto
• Ônakatomi no Yoshinobu
• Ono no Komachi
• Ôshikôchi no Mitsune
• Saigû no Nyogo
• Sakanoue Korenori
• Sarumaru Dayû.
• Sosei Hôshi
• Taira no Kanemori

References

• Gallery labels, Nakasendô Kaidô Bunka Kôryûkan, Moriyama, Shiga pref.[1]