was the first imperial anthology of ''

renga ''Renga'' (, ''linked poem'') is a genre of Japanese collaborative poetry in which alternating stanzas, or ''ku (''句), of 5-7-5 and 7-7 morae (sound units, not to be confused with syllables) per line are linked in succession by multiple poets ...

''. The collection was compiled by

Nijō Yoshimoto , son of regent Nijō Michihira, was a Japanese '' kugyō'' (court noble), waka poet, and renga master of the early Nanboku-chō period (1336–1392). Yoshimoto's wife gave birth to Nijō Moroyoshi. With another woman, he had sons Nijō Morots ...

. Provincial lord Sasaki Takauji played an active role in its production with 81 of his poems appearing in the final version. In addition to courtly renga, the anthology contains, in Book 19, the earliest known collection of '' haikai no renga''.Horton, H. Mack. 'Early Haikai Linked Verse', in ''Journal of Renga & Renku'', Issue 2, 2012. p79

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The title of the work refers to

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, a location in the east Japan at which, according to the ''

Kojiki The , also sometimes read as or , is an early Japanese chronicle of myths, legends, hymns, genealogies, oral traditions, and semi-historical accounts down to 641 concerning the origin of the Japanese archipelago, the , and the Japanese imperia ...

'', Yamato Takeru and an elderly interlocutor composed a two-part poem together, this story being where practitioners of ''renga'' traced their tradition's origins.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tsukubashu Late Middle Japanese texts Renga Japanese poetry anthologies