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. It was finished somewhere around 1325 or 1326 CE, two or three years after the

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first ordered it in 1323. It was compiled initially by

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, but had to be finished by

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(both members of the older conservative Nijō). It consists of twenty volumes containing 1,347 poems.

References

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