1278 in poetry

Events

• 24 August — Amanieu de Sescars wrote A vos, que ieu am deszamatz, 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