Chinese poetry and classics have flourished since ancient times, and Juyi BAI was an especially influential poet whose works were collected in "Wakan Roeishu" (Japanese and Chinese Poems to Sing).
漢詩・漢文が上代に引き続き栄え、特に『和漢朗詠集』でも多く採り上げられた白居易の影響は大きかった。