小野小町
Little is known of her except what is preserved in her 29 surviving poems in the "Man'yōshū"; all these were love poems addressed to her lover Ōtomo no Yakamochi who compiled the "Man'yōshū" (and who is known to have had at least 14 other lovers and have broken up with her). Nonetheless, her love poems made her famous and inspired a later generation of female poets like Izumi Shikibu or Ono no Komachi.