title: 890s in poetry
text: # 890s in poetry
  
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
  
  ## Events
  
  893:
  
  * Mibu no Tadamine wins the Koresada no miko no ie no uta'awase (是貞の親王家歌合, "The Poetry Match at Prince Koresada's Residence")
  
  ## Births
  
  Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources conflict, the poet is listed again and the conflict is noted:
  
  897:
  
  * Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani (died 967), Iranian scholar of Arab-Quraysh origin who is noted for collecting and preserving ancient Arabic lyrics and poems in his major work, the Kitāb al-Aghānī
  
  898:
  
  * Ōshikōchi Mitsune (died 922), one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals of Heian Japan
  
  ## Deaths
  
  Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  
  890:
  
  * Feb. 12: Henjo (born 816), one of the Six best Waka poets and Thirty-six Poetry Immortals
  
  893:
  
  * Ariwara no Yukihira (born 818), Japanese Heian period courtier, poet and bureaucrat
  
  896:
  
  * Flann mac Lonáin (born unknown), Irish Gaelic poet
  
  897:
  
  * al-Buhturi (born 820), Arabian poet
  
  899:
  
  * Oct. 26: Alfred the Great (born 849), King and poet, wrote Lays of Boethius
  