The is a Japanese

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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, a type of poetry in classical Japanese literature. It was finished in 1265 CE, six years after the

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first ordered it in 1259. It was compiled by

Fujiwara no Tameie was a Japanese poet and compiler of Imperial anthologies of poems. Tameie was the second son of poet Teika and married Abutsu-ni. He was the central figure in a circle of Japanese poets after the Jōkyū War in 1221. His three sons were Nij ...

(son of

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 ...

) with the aid of

Fujiwara no Motoie Fujiwara (, written: 藤原 lit. "''Wisteria'' field") is a Japanese surname. (In English conversation it is likely to be rendered as .) Notable people with the surname include: ; Families * The Fujiwara clan and its members ** Fujiwara no Kamatari ...

Fujiwara no Ieyoshi Fujiwara no Ieyoshi (藤原家良 1192 - 1264) was a ''waka'' poet and Japanese nobleman active in the Heian period and early Kamakura period The is a period of Japanese history that marks the governance by the Kamakura shogunate, officially es ...

Fujiwara no Yukiee Fujiwara (, written: 藤原 lit. "''Wisteria'' field") is a Japanese surname. (In English conversation it is likely to be rendered as .) Notable people with the surname include: ; Families * The Fujiwara clan and its members ** Fujiwara no Kamatari ...

, and

Fujiwara no Mitsutoshi Hamuro Mitsutoshi (葉室光俊, ''Hamuro no Mitsutoshi'', 1203 - 1276) was a major ''waka'' poet and Japanese nobleman active in the early Kamakura period The is a period of Japanese history that marks the governance by the Kamakura shogunate, ...

; like most Imperial anthologies, there is a Japanese and a Chinese Preface, but their authorship is obscure and essentially unknown. It consists of twenty volumes containing 1,925 poems.

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*pg. 484-485 of ''Japanese Court Poetry'',

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 obit ...

, Robert H. Brower. 1961, Stanford University Press, LCCN 61-10925 Japanese poetry anthologies 1260s in Japan 13th-century literature {{Japan-lit-stub

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