The Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry, or sanjūrokkasen (三十六歌仙), is a special list of early Japanese poets that were selected by the famous poetry critic, Fujiwara no Kintō (poem 55), as being the finest poets in Japanese antiquity. The list was composed around 1009-1011. This list superseded the original Six Immortals of Poetry from an earlier era, though some poets in that group also appear here.
Wikipedia lists the entire group, but for the Hyakunin Isshu, only the following poets, male and female, are in the Hyakunin Isshu out of the original 36 (24 in all):
Poet | Poem in the Hyakunin Isshu |
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro | poem 3 |
Yamabe no Akahito | poem 4 |
Sarumaru no Taifu | poem 5 |
Ōtomo no Yakamochi | poem 6 |
Ono no Komachi | poem 9 |
High Priest Henjō | poem 12 |
Ariwara no Narihira | poem 17 |
Fujiwara no Toshiyuki | poem 18 |
Lady Ise | poem 19 |
Dharma Master (Priest) Sosei | poem 21 |
Fujiwara no Kanesuke | poem 27 |
Minamoto no Muneyuki | poem 28 |
Ōshikōchi no Mitsune | poem 29 |
Mibu no Tadamine | poem 30 |
Sakanoue no Korenori | poem 31 |
Ki no Tomonori | poem 33 |
Ki no Tsurayuki | poem 35 |
Taira no Kanemori | poem 40 |
Mibu no Tadami | poem 41 |
Kiyohara no Motosuke | poem 42 |
Fujiwara no Atsutada | poem 43 |
Fujiwara no Asatada | poem 44 |
Minamoto no Shigeyuki | poem 48 |
Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu | poem 49 |