940s in poetry
This article covers 940s in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Works published
941:945:
- Publication of Ten Styles of Tadamine by Mibu no Tadamine
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources conflict, the poet is listed again and the conflict is noted:940:
949:
- Fujiwara no Nagayoshi, Japanese poet and a court bureaucrat of the Heian period
- Ranna, writing in Kannada language
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:941:
- Rudaki, Persian poet in the Perso-Arabic alphabet or "New Persian" script
- Fujiwara no Atsutada, 藤原敦忠, also 権中納言敦忠; also known as 本院中納言 and 琵琶中納言,, middle Heian period waka poet and nobleman; one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals; one of his poems is included in the Hyakunin Isshu anthology
- Ki no Tsurayuki, Japanese author, poet and courtier of the Heian period
- Minamoto no Kintada, one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals of Japan