890s in poetry

Events

• Mibu no Tadamine wins the Koresada no miko no ie no uta'awase

  Works published

Births

• Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani, Iranian scholar of Arab-Quraysh origin who is noted for collecting and preserving ancient Arabic lyrics and poems in his major work, the Kitāb al-Aghānī

• Ōshikōchi Mitsune, one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals of Heian Japan

  Deaths

• Feb. 12: Henjo, one of the Six best Waka poets and Thirty-six Poetry Immortals

• Ariwara no Yukihira, Japanese Heian period courtier, poet and bureaucrat

• Flann mac Lonáin, Irish Gaelic poet

• al-Buhturi, Arabian poet

• Oct. 26: Alfred the Great, King and poet, wrote Lays of Boethius