紀貫之

きのつらゆき (c. 868-945)

One of the compilers of the KKS, the writer of the kana preface, and later accorded legendary status as a poet. He has the most poems in all three of the first three Imperial collections. A large personal poetry collection survives. He is represented by 98 poems in the KKS, 75 in the GSS, 107 in the SIS, and 161 poems in later collections.