The ''Nijōin no Sanuki Shū'' (二条院讃岐集), also known as the ''Sanuki-shū'' (讃岐集) is a Japanese anthology of ''
waka
Waka may refer to:
Culture and language
* Waka (canoe), a Polynesian word for canoe; especially, canoes of the Māori of New Zealand
** Waka ama, a Polynesian outrigger canoe
** Waka hourua, a Polynesian ocean-going canoe
** Waka taua, a Māori w ...
'' poetry. It is the personal anthology (''
kashū'') of
Nijōin no Sanuki
was a Japanese ''waka'' poet and noblewoman active in the late- Heian and early-Kamakura period. She was a contributor to the ''Senzai Wakashū'' anthology. A member of the Minamoto clan, she was also known as .
Poetry
One of her poems is incl ...
. The text dates to before 1187, probably 1182, and probably originally consisted of 100 poems, but the manuscript tradition is incomplete and the most that have been recovered is 98. The surviving manuscripts all come from the same textual line, but are divided by critical scholars into two groups based on orthographic differences.
Compiler and date
The ''Nijōin no Sanuki Shū'' was probably completed before the ''
Senzai Wakashū
, often abbreviated as ''Senzaishū'', is an imperial anthology of Japanese waka poetry. It was compiled in 1187 by Fujiwara no Shunzei at the behest of the Retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa, who ordered it in 1183. It consists of twenty volumes cont ...
'' was first presented to the
emperor
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in 1187. Sanuki probably compiled the anthology herself in 1182, when she was in her early forties, in response to
Kamo no Shigeyasu's solicitation of private collections of 100 poems by contemporary poets of the
Juei
was a after ''Yōwa'' and before ''Genryaku.'' This period spanned the years from May 1182 through March 1184. The reigning emperors were Antoku''-tennō'' (安徳天皇) and .
Change of era
* 1182 : The new era name was created to mark an ev ...
era, the ''Juei Hyakushu Kashū'' (寿永百首家集).
Contents
The surviving manuscripts of the anthology are all missing portions, all amounting to a total of 98 poems. The texts that include more than 98 are later interpolations. Of the 98, nine were originally composed by people other than Sanuki, including
Emperor Nijō
was the 78th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned the years from 1158 through 1165.
Genealogy
Before his ascension to the Chrysanthemum Throne, his personal name (his ''imina'') was Morihito''-sh ...
(''Nijō-in'') and .
There is no clear demarcation of the
thematic divisions between the poems, but they are broadly divided into three sections of seasonal poems, love poems and poems on various topics. At the end are five poems that were originally meant to be included with the seasonal poems.
Textual tradition
The surviving manuscripts are all in the same textual line, but can be divided into two groups based on the minor differences in content and notation. Group 1 includes the two manuscripts in the possession of the
Archives and Mausolea Department
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The department is headed by a Director-General and consists of the following divisions:
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of the
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, one in the possession of the
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library, one in the , and others; Group 2 includes the manuscript, the ''
Tōdai-bon'', the ''
Kyōdai-bon'', the ''
Gunshoruijū-bon'', and others.
References
Works cited
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