was an

imperial anthology Imperial is that which relates to an empire, emperor, or imperialism. Imperial or The Imperial may also refer to: Places United States * Imperial, California * Imperial, Missouri * Imperial, Nebraska * Imperial, Pennsylvania * Imperial, Texas ...

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waka poetry is a type of poetry in classical Japanese literature. Although ''waka'' in modern Japanese is written as , in the past it was also written as (see Wa, an old name for Japan), and a variant name is . Etymology The word ''waka'' has two diffe ...

. The work was completed somewhere between 1313 and 1314, two or three years after the

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Fushimi first ordered it around 1311. The anthology was compiled by

Fujiwara no Tamekane , also known as , was a poet, an official in the Imperial court of Emperor Fushimi, and a senior bureaucrat of the Kamakura shogunate. Tamekane was the grandson of poet Fujiwara no Tameie.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Kyōgoku no Tamekane ...

, also known as Kyōgoku no Tamekane, who was descended from

Fujiwara no Teika , better-known as Fujiwara no Teika"Sadaie" and "Teika" are both possible readings of ; "...there is the further problem, the rendition of the name in romanized form. Teika probably referred to himself as Sadaie, and his father probably called ...

. This branch of the poet dynasty allied itself with the younger liberal Reizei rather than the older conservative Nijō). The work consists of twenty volumes containing 2,796 poems. This and the ''

Fūga Wakashū The , also abbreviated as the was an imperial anthology of Japanese waka; it was compiled somewhere between 1344 and 1346 CE, by Emperor Hanazono, who also wrote its Chinese and Japanese Prefaces. It consists of twenty volumes containing 2,210 ...

'' would be the only Imperial anthologies compiled by either the liberal Ryogoku or the liberal Reizei.Brower, Robert H. '' et al.'' (1961). ''Japanese Court Poetry'', p. 485.

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References

* Brower, Robert H. and

Earl Miner Earl Roy Miner (February 21, 1927 – April 17, 2004) was a professor at Princeton University, and a noted scholar of Japanese literature and especially Japanese poetry; he was also active in early modern English literature (for instance, his ob ...

. (1961). ''Japanese Court Poetry''. Stanford: Stanford University Press
OCLC 32671

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*Online manuscript at

International Research Center for Japanese Studies The , or Nichibunken (日文研), is an inter-university research institute in Kyoto. Along with the National Institute of Japanese Literature, the National Museum of Japanese History, and the National Museum of Ethnology, it is one of the Natio ...

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