List of Japanese poetry anthologies

This is a list of significant Japanese poetry anthologies.

Starting with the Kokin Wakashū, there were 21 official anthologies, known collectively as the Nijūichidaishū (二十一代集, Collections of the Twenty-One Eras).[1][2][3][4][5]

Nara period (710 to 794)

  • Man'yōshū: the oldest anthology in Japanese, c.785, 20 manuscript scrolls, 4,516 poems (when the tanka envoys to the various chōka are numbered as separate poems), Ōtomo no Yakamochi was probably the last to edit the Man'yōshū. It is not organized in any particular way (most metadata is supplied by headnotes), and the poems are written in a Japanese version of the Chinese monosyllabic pronunciation for the Chinese characters.[6][7]

Heian period (794 to 1185)

Private editions

Most waka poets had their own anthologies edited by themselves or by others. Some of these are sources of the imperial anthologies.

  • Hitomarokashū: an anthology of Kakinomoto no Hitomaro works. The editor is unknown. Perhaps edited in the early Heian period. Many misattributed waka are included.
  • Tsurayukishū: an anthology of Ki no Tsurayuki works, one of editors of Kokin Wakashū.
  • Kintōshū: an anthology of Fujiwara no Kintō, the editor of Wakan Rōeishū. It gave influence to the waka poetry in the middle Heian period.
  • Hyakunin Isshu, or more precisely Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: edited by Fujiwara no Teika. Till Meiji it had been read as elementary book for waka poets.
  • Fujiwara no Teika Kashū: an anthology of Fujiwara no Teika works.
  • Izumi Shikibu Shū: an anthology of Izumi Shikibu works.

Kamakura period (1185–1333) and Muromachi period (1336–1573)

  • Imperial anthologies - thirteen anthologies were edited mostly in the Kamakura period.
9. Shinchokusen Wakashū: 20 scrolls, 1,376 poems.
10. Shokugosen Wakashū: 20 scrolls, 1,368 poems.
11. Shokukokin Wakashū: 20 scrolls, 1,925 poems.
12. Shokushūi Wakashū: 20 scrolls, 1,461 poems.
13. Shingosen Wakashū: 20 scrolls, 1,606 poems.
14. Gyokuyō Wakashū: 20 scrolls, 2,796 poems.
15. Shokusenzai Wakashū: 20 scrolls, 2,159 poems.
16. Shokugoshūi Wakashū: 20 scrolls, 1,347 poems.
17. Fūga Wakashū: 20 scrolls, 2,210 poems.
18. Shinsenzai Wakashū: 20 scrolls, 2,364 poems.
19. Shinshūi Wakashū: 20 scrolls, 1,920 poems.
20. Shingoshūi Wakashū: 20 scrolls, 1,554 poems.
21. Shinshokukokin Wakashū: 20 scrolls, 2,144 poems, last Imperial anthology, notable for including nearly 800 poets.

Haikai and Haiku

  • Shinseninutsukubashū (1532): edited by Yamazaki Sōkan. The significant anthology of early haikai renga from which haiku later developed.
  • Kai Ōi (The Seashell Game) (1672): hokku anthology, compiled by Matsuo Bashō
  • Haikai Shichibushū: the conventional name for seven anthologies collecting Matsuo Bashō and his disciples' renku.[8]
    • Fuyunohi (A Winter Day)
    • Harunohi (A Spring Day)
    • Arano (Wilderness)
    • Hisago (Gourd)
    • Sarumino (Monkey's Straw Raincoat)
    • Sumidawara (Carbon Carton)
    • Zokusarumino (Monkey's Straw Raincoat II)

Miscellaneous

See also

References

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  5. ^ Brower, Robert H.; Earl Roy Miner (1961). Japanese court poetry. Stanford University Press. LCCN 61-10925.
  6. ^ Shirane, Haruo (2012-09-25). Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600, Abridged Edition. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-50453-9.
  7. ^ Richard, Kenneth L. (1983). "Review of The Ten Thousand Leaves. A Translation of the Man'yoshu, Japan's Premier Anthology of Classical Poetry. Volume One.; From the Country of Eight Islands. An Anthology of Japanese Poetry.; The Zen Poems of Ryokan". Pacific Affairs. 56 (1): 157–159. doi:10.2307/2758798. ISSN 0030-851X. JSTOR 2758798.
  8. ^ Haruo Shirane. Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho. Stanford University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-8047-3099-7