The refers to descendants of
Fujiwara no Tameie
was a Japanese poet and compiler of Imperial anthologies of poems.
Tameie was the second son of poet Fujiwara no Teika, Teika and married Abutsu-ni. He was the central figure in a circle of Japanese poets after the Jōkyū War in 1221. His three ...
's eldest son,
Nijō Tameuji (1222–86). The family name took after Nijō district of
Kyoto
Kyoto ( or ; Japanese language, Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu. , the city had a population of 1.46 million, making it t ...
where the family had resided. This hereditary house of
Japanese waka poetry is generally known for its conservative slant toward the politics and poetics aimed at preserving the ideals of
Fujiwara no Shunzei and
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 ...
. The members of the family are credited for the compilation of eleven out of thirteen later imperial anthologies, i.e., :
* ''
Shinchokusen Wakashū'' (新勅撰和歌集);
* ''
Shokugosen Wakashū'' (続後撰和歌集);
* ''
Shokukokin Wakashū'' (続古今和歌集);
* ''
Shokushūi Wakashū'' (続拾遺和歌集);
* ''
Shingosen Wakashū'' (新後撰和歌集);
* ''
Shokusenzai Wakashū'' (続千載和歌集);
* ''
Shokugoshūi Wakashū'' (続後拾遺和歌集);
* ''
Shinsenzai Wakashū'' (新千載和歌集);
* ''
Shinshūi Wakashū'' (新拾遺和歌集);
* ''
Shingoshūi Wakashū'' (新後拾遺和歌集), and
* ''
Shinshokukokin Wakashū'' (新続古今和歌集).
(listed in chronological order)
The rivals of Nijō school, the
Kyōgoku and
Reizei families are known for their innovative approach to poetic composition. The Kyōgoku family compiled the following two imperial anthologies:
* ''
Gyokuyō Wakashū
was an imperial anthology 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 ...
'' (玉葉和歌集) and
* ''
Fūga Wakashū'' (風雅和歌集).
[Earl Roy Miner, Hiroko Odagiri, and Robert E. Morrell (1985). ''The Princeton companion to classical Japanese literature.'' Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press. (p. 210).]
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