1235 in poetry

Works

• Fujiwara no Teika, editor, Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, an anthology of 100 Japanese poems, each by a different poet; is compiled about this year; the popularity of the anthology has endured to the present day, and a Japanese card game, Uta-garuta, uses cards with the poems printed on it

Births

• Guittone d'Arezzo, founder of the Tuscan School

Deaths

• Ibn al-Farid, Arabic Sufi poet