1278 in poetry

Events

• 24 August — Amanieu de Sescars wrote A vos, que ieu am deszamatz, a ''salut d'amor''

Works published

• Fujiwara no Tameuji, editor, Shokushūi Wakashū, an imperial anthology of Japanese waka; ordered by the Retired Emperor Kameyama about 1276, consisting of twenty volumes containing 1,461 poems

Births

• Kokan Shiren, Japanese Rinzai Zen patriarch and celebrated poet in Chinese

Deaths

• Peire Cardenal, an Occitan troubadour
• Ulrich von Liechtenstein, a German Minnesänger