This article covers 1248 in poetry. Events Lanfranc Cigala writes bemoaning the state of the Church Japanese Retired Emperor Go-Saga orders a new imperial anthology of waka poems; compiled by Fujiwara no Tameie, the new anthology, titled Shokugosen Wakashū' 続後撰和歌集 ("Later Collection Continued"), would be finished three years later, in 1251 Deaths Shams Tabrizi (born 1185), Persian Sufi See also 13th century in poetry List of years in poetry