The , also abbreviated as the was an
imperial anthology
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Japanese waka; it was compiled somewhere between 1344 and 1346
CE, by
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Hanazono, who also wrote its Chinese and Japanese Prefaces. It consists of twenty volumes containing 2,210 poems. This, with the ''
Gyokuyoshu'' was one of the only two Imperial anthologies to be heavily influenced or compiled by persons affiliated with the liberal Kyogoku and
Reizei factions. As befits two clans descended from
Fujiwara no Teika
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, this collection harkens back to his styles of poetry; Miner and Brower consider it to be "the last of the great collections of Court poetry."
References
*pg. 485-486 of ''Japanese Court Poetry'',
Earl Miner,
Robert H. Brower
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Japanese poetry anthologies
1340s in Japan
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