The ''Okikaze-shū'' (興風集), is a Japanese anthology of '' waka'' poetry. It is the personal anthology ('' kashū'') of Fujiwara no Okikaze. It is one of the '' Sanjūroku-nin Shū'' (三十六人集). It was put together by an unknown compiler sometime after the mid-10th century and survives in three variant textual traditions. It incorporates poems taken from the first two

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, as well as a number of poems from an unknown source. Later, imperial anthologies attributed poems to Okikaze based on their inclusion in this collection.

Compiler and date

The ''Okikaze-shū'' is a personal collection ('' kashū'') of the '' waka'' of the 10th-century poet Fujiwara no Okikaze. It was not personally compiled by Okikaze, but by a later, unknown compiler, in the mid- or late-

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Textual tradition

The ''Okikaze-shū'' has three distinct textual lines, but scholars consider them to have originated from a single Urtext. Line 1 is the '' rufubon'' (common) text, which was printed as part of the ''Kasen Kashū'' during the

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era (the '' Shōhō-ban Kasen Kashū'', 正保版歌仙歌集) and includes 52 poems. The last of these poems, however, is an interpolation (他本歌 ''tahon-ka'') from the '' Gosenshū''. Line 2 is represented by a manuscript traditionally attributed to , and includes 53 poems. Line 3 is represented by the edition included in the '' Nishihonganji-bon Sanjūroku-nin Shū'' (the

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text), and includes 57 poems. Lines 1 and 2 more closely resemble each other than either resembles Line 3. There is also a surviving fragmentary text, the so-called ''Fujiwara no Okikaze Shū'' (藤原興風集).

All three textual lines of the ''Okikaze-shū'' are composed of two sections, the first of which consists of poems borrowed from the '' Kokinshū'' and the ''Gosenshū'', the latter sections being poems collected by an unknown compiler. The poems that were attributed to Okikaze by the '' Shinkokinshū'' and later

were all taken from this latter section.

Facsimiles and modern editions

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editions include the ''Fukkoku Nihon Koten Bungakukan'', the ''Gosho-bon Sanjūrokunin-shū'', the ''Sanjūrokunin Kashū'' and the ''Nishihonganji-bon Sanjūrokunin Kashū''. Modern printed editions include those of the ''

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'', the '' Shoku Kokka Taikan'' (a supplement to the '' Kokka Taikan'') and the '' Katsura no Miya Sōsho'' Vol. 1.

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Full text
of the ''Okikaze-shū'' in the

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