Kūkai 空海, also known posthumously as "Kōbō-Daishi" 弘法大師 (774–835),monk, scholar, poet, and artist who founded theShingon or "True Word" school of Buddhism, followers of that school usually refer to him by the honorific title "Odaishisama" お大師様
Sami Mansei 沙弥満誓 ("novice Mansei"), secular name was Kasa no Ason Maro (fl. c.720), Buddhist priest and poet; a member ofŌtomo no Tabito's literary circle; has poems in theMan'yōshū anthology
772 –Kakyō Hyōshiki 歌経標式 (also known asUta no Shiki ("The Code of Poetry"), aJapanese text on poetics commissioned byEmperor Kōnin and written byFujiwara no Hamanari, is completed; the one-volume work "is the oldest extant piece of poetic criticism in the Japanese canon"[1]
^Rabinovitch, Judith (December 1991). "Wasp Waists and Monkey Tails: A Study and Translation of Hamanari's Uta no Shiki (The Code of Poetry, 772), Also Known as Kakyō Hyōshiki (A Formulary for Verse Based on The Canons of Poetry)".Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies.51 (2). Harvard-Yenching Institute:471–560.doi:10.2307/2719287.JSTOR2719287.