Poets from the period of Gosen (Wakashu) and Shui (Collection of Gleanings of Japanese Poems) were considered important: KIYOHARA no Motosuke, ONAKATOMI no Yoshinobu, MINAMOTO no Michinari, FUJIWARA no Nagato, and FUJIWARA no Kinto.
ほかに、清原元輔・大中臣能宣・源道済・藤原長能・同藤原公任ら後撰・拾遺時代の歌人も重視されている。