950s in poetry

Events

• Compilation of the Gosen Wakashū, a Japanese imperial poetry anthology

  Works published

Births

• Wang Yucheng, Song

• Akazome Emon 赤染衛門, Japanese waka poet who lived in the mid-Heian period; a member of both the Thirty-six Elder Poetic Sages and Fujiwara no Kintō's 36 female poetry immortals of the Kamakura period

  Deaths

• Ōnakatomi no Yorimoto, one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals of Japan