15th century in poetry

Events

Works

Births and deaths

Nezahualcoyotl as depicted in the 16th century Codex Ixtlilxochitl.

Mexico

Europe

Japan

  • Arakida Moritake 荒木田守武 (14731549), the son of Negi Morihide, and a Shinto priest; said to have excelled in waka, renga, and in particular haikai
  • Ikkyū 休宗純, Ikkyū Sōjun 13941481), eccentric, iconic, Rinzai Zen Buddhist priest, poet and sometime mendicant flute player who influenced Japanese art and literature with an infusion of Zen attitudes and ideals; one of the creators of the formal Japanese tea ceremony; well-known to Japanese children through various stories and the subject of a popular Japanese children's television program; made a character in anime fiction
  • Shōtetsu 正徹 (13811459), considered by some the last great poet in the courtly waka tradition; his disciples were important in the development of renga, which led to haiku
  • Sōgi 宗祇 (14211502), Japanese Zen monk who studied waka and renga poetry, then became a professional renga poet in his 30s
  • Yamazaki Sōkan 山崎宗鑑, pen name of Shina Norishige (14651553), renga and haikai poet, court calligrapher for Shōgun Ashikaga Yoshihisa; became a secluded Buddhist monk following the shōgun's death in 1489

Persian language

South Asia

See also

Decades and years

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1470s 1470 1471 1472 1473 1474 1475 1476 1477 1478 1479
1480s 1480 1481 1482 1483 1484 1485 1486 1487 1488 1489
1490s 1490 1491 1492 1493 1494 1495 1496 1497 1498 1499
1500s 1500 1501 1502 1503 1504 1505 1506 1507 1508 1509

Notes

  1. Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
  2. Olsen, Kirsten, Chronology of Women's History, p 55, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994, ISBN 0-313-28803-8, ISBN 978-0-313-28803-6, retrieved via Google Books on May 26, 2009
  3. Miguel Leon-Portilla (1978). Trece Poetas del Mundo Azteca [Thirteen Poets of the Aztec World] (in Spanish) (2nd, 1972 ed.). Mexico City: Universidad Nacinal Autonoma de Mexico.
  4. Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008
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