was an

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

of Japanese waka poetry. The work was completed somewhere between 1313 and 1314, two or three years after the Retired Emperor Fushimi first ordered it around 1311. The anthology was compiled by Fujiwara no Tamekane, also known as Kyōgoku no Tamekane, who was descended from

Fujiwara no Teika was a Japanese anthologist, calligrapher, literary critic,"The high quality of poetic theory (''karon'') in this age depends chiefly upon the poetic writings of Fujiwara Shunzei and his son Teika. The other theorists of ''tanka'' writing, st ...

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

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* 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 obi ...

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

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*Online manuscript at

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