1278 in poetry
Events 24 August — Amanieu de Sescars wrote , a salut d'amor (love letter) Works published Fujiwara no Tameuji, editor, Shokushūi Wakashū (続拾遺和歌集, "Collection of Gleanings of Japanese Poems Continued"), an imperial anthology of Japanese waka; ordered by the Retired Emperor Kameyama about 1276, consisting of twenty volumes containing 1,461 poems Births Kokan Shiren (died 1347), Japanese Rinzai Zen patriarch and celebrated poet in Chinese Deaths Peire Cardenal (born 1180), an Occitan troubadour Ulrich von Liechtenstein (born 1200), a German Minnesänger 13th-century poetry Poetry