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Eiga No Ittei
''Eiga Ittei'' (詠歌一体, also read ''Eiga no Ittei'' or ''Eiga Ittai'') is a book of poetic theory written by the Japanese '' waka'' poet Fujiwara no Tameie in the Kamakura period. It falls within the '' karon'' genre. It has a large number of alternate titles, including ''Waka Ittei'', ''Kadō no Sho'', ''Waka Hishō'', ''Sanken Hiketsu'' and ''Yakumo Kuden''. It provides advice to its readers, presumed to be beginner students of ''waka'' composition, in eight sections, and bears similarities to other poetic theory works by Tameie's father, Fujiwara no Teika, and grandfather, Fujiwara no Shunzei. Authorship and date ''Eiga Ittei'' was written by the poet Fujiwara no Tameie. The work's date of composition, if one believes the postscript attached to the ''rufubon'' (popular) text, is the Kōchō period (1261-1264), although it has also been dated by scholars to 1275. Title The work is normally known by the title ''Eiga Ittei'', but it has a large number of alternate title ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waka (poetry)
is a type of poetry in classical Japanese literature. Although ''waka'' in modern Japanese is written as , in the past it was also written as (see Wa, an old name for Japan), and a variant name is . Etymology The word ''waka'' has two different but related meanings: the original meaning was "poetry in Japanese" and encompassed several genres such as ''chōka'' and ''sedōka'' (discussed below); the later, more common definition refers to poetry in a 5-7-5-7-7 metre. Up to and during the compilation of the ''Man'yōshū'' in the eighth century, the word ''waka'' was a general term for poetry composed in Japanese, and included several genres such as , , and . However, by the time of the '' Kokinshūs compilation at the beginning of the tenth century, all of these forms except for the ''tanka'' and ''chōka'' had effectively gone extinct, and ''chōka'' had significantly diminished in prominence. As a result, the word ''waka'' became effectively synonymous with ''tanka'', and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
