1235 in poetry

Works

 * Fujiwara no Teika, editor, Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, an anthology of 100 Japanese poems, each by a different poet; is compiled about this year; the popularity of the anthology has endured to the present day, and a Japanese card game, Uta-garuta, uses cards with the poems printed on it

Births

 * Guittone d'Arezzo (died 1294), founder of the Tuscan School

Deaths

 * Ibn al-Farid (born 1181), Arabic Sufi poet