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. It was finished somewhere around 1320 CE, two years after the

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first ordered it in 1318. It was compiled by

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(who also compiled the ''

Shingosen Wakashū The , often abbreviated as ''Shingosenshū'', is an imperial anthology of Japanese waka poetry. The title is in opposition to the previous '' Gosen Wakashū''. It was completed in 1303, two years after the Retired Emperor Go-Uda first ordered. It ...

'', and was a member of the older conservative Nijō). It consists of twenty volumes containing 2,159 poems.

References

*pg. 485 of ''Japanese Court Poetry'',

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, Robert H. Brower. 1961,

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