The , often abbreviated as ''Shūishū'', is the third
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of
waka
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from
Heian period
The is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185. It followed the Nara period, beginning when the 50th emperor, Emperor Kanmu, moved the capital of Japan to Heian-kyō (modern Kyoto). means "peace" in Japanese. ...
Japan. It was compiled by
Emperor Kazan
was the 65th emperor of Japan, Imperial Household Agency (''Kunaichō'') 花山天皇 (65)/ref> according to the traditional order of succession.
Kazan's reign spanned the years from 984 through 986.
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Before his ascension to the Chry ...
in about 1005.
[Keene 1999 : 283] Its twenty volumes contain 1,351 poems. The details of its publication and compilation are unclear.
The ''Shūishū'' was an expansion of
Fujiwara no Kintō
, also known as Shijō-dainagon, was a Japanese poet, admired by his contemporaries "... Fujiwara no Kinto (966–1008), the most admired poet of the day." pg 283 of Donald Keene's ''Seeds in the Heart''. and a court bureaucrat of the Heian pe ...
's earlier anthology, the , compiled between 996 and 999.
Until the early nineteenth century, it was mistakenly believed that the ''Shūishō'' was a selection of the best poems from the ''Shūishū'', and so the former was more highly regarded.
[Keene 1999 : 284]
References
Bibliography
*Cranston, Edwin A., 1993. ''A Waka Anthology, Volume Two: Grasses of Remembrance''. Palo Alto : Stanford University Press. .
*Keene, Donald, 1999. ''Seeds in the Heart: A History of Japanese Literature, Volume 1''. New York: Columbia University Press. .
Japanese poetry anthologies
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