1749 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Title page of The Vanity of Human Wishes by Samuel Johnson, first published this year
Japanese poetry
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Japanese poetry is poetry typical of Japan, or written, spoken, or chanted in the Japanese language, which includes Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese, and Modern Japanese, as w
1749 in poetry
…most oft-used pen name of Ōta Tan, whose other pen names include Yomo no Akara, Yomo Sanjin, Kyōkaen, and Shokusanjin 蜀山人 (died 1823), late Edo period Japanese poet and fiction writer May 4 – Charlotte Turner Smith (died 1806), English poet and novelist…
Edition of the Kokin Wakashū anthology of classic Japanese poetry with wood-carved cover, 18th century
Illustration of the "32 Persons of Different Occupations Poetry Competition", 1494
Book of Odes Dainembutsuji, commentary fragment (Shijing commentary fragment, 毛詩鄭箋残巻, mōshi teisen zankan). Before 1185.
Sugawara no Michizane is revered as the god of learning, as seen on this ema at a Shintō shrine.