During the 14th century, Japanese poets began to develop the form of verse we now call the haiku.

Japanese poets became skilled in those rules and produced much good poetry.

This poetry belonged to a very different tradition and was regarded by Japanese poets as a form without any boundaries.

Most Japanese poets, however, generally write in a single form of poetry.

This is about the 10th-century Japanese poet.

For the 10th-century Japanese poet also known by the same name, see Fujiwara no Nagatō.

Japanese poets who write haiku often use a haigō (俳号).

Japanese poet and monk of the late Heian period.

During the 1990s, Lowitz helped to bring many modern Japanese poets and fiction writers into English for the first time.

Here is an example from the Japanese poet Saigyo, who lived from 1118 to 1190.