The , often abbreviated as ''Gosenshū'' ("Later Collection"), is an

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compiled in

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by the

Five Men of the Pear Chamber {{Unreferenced, date=August 2020 The Five Men of the Pear Chamber (梨壺の五人 ''Nashitsubo no gonin'') are a group of Heian period Japanese poets and scholars who cooperated in the compilation of the Gosen Wakashū. They also compiled '' kundok ...

Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu (921–991, 大中臣能宣, also Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu Ason 大中臣能宣朝臣) was a middle Heian period '' waka poet'' and Japanese nobleman. His granddaughter was the famous later Heian poet Ise no Taiu. He is d ...

(922-991),

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(908-990),

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(911-983),

Ki no Tokibumi Ki no Tokibumi (紀時文, 922 - 996) was a Japanese waka poet and nobleman of the Heian period. As one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber (梨壺の五人), he assisted in the compilation of the Gosen Wakashū poetry anthology. He also compi ...

(flourished ~950), and

Sakanoue no Mochiki was a Heian period '' waka poet'' and Japanese nobleman. He was the son of Sakanoue no Korenori, one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals. As one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber (梨壺の五人), he contributed to the compilation of the ''Gose ...

(flourished ~950). It consists of twenty volumes containing 1,426 poems. The collection has no preface and there are no contemporary writings that explain the compilers' intentions, nor is there any evidence that it was formally presented to the Emperor. In comparison to the ''

Kokin Wakashū The , commonly abbreviated as , is an early anthology of the ''waka'' form of Japanese poetry, dating from the Heian period. An imperial anthology, it was conceived by Emperor Uda () and published by order of his son Emperor Daigo () in about ...

'' which preceded it, the ''Gosenshū'' focuses more on private poems, particularly poetry exchanges. It has a large number of poems that seem more like fictional poem tales, and even the poems by named authors frequently have long prose prefaces.

References

* pg. 482-483 of ''Japanese Court Poetry'',

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''Gosen Wakashū'' text
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