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A Note on Transcription

A Note on Sources

Famous Poets

Akazome Emon Ariwara no Narihira Ariwara no Yukihira Fujiwara no Akisue Fujiwara no Kintô Fujiwara no Kiyosuke Fujiwara no Mototoshi Fujiwara no Okikaze Fujiwara no Shunzei Fujiwara no Teika

Fun'ya no Yasuhide Henjô Ise Izumi Shikibu Kakinomoto no Hitomaro Ki no Tsurayuki Ki no Tomonori Kiyowara no Fukayabu Mibu no Tadamine Minamoto no Shunrai

Murasaki Shikibu Ôe no Chisato Ôshikôchi no Mitsune Ôtomo no Yakamochi Ono no Komachi Saigyô Shokushi Sone no Yoshitada Yamabe no Akahito Yamanoe no Okura

Participants in the Roppyaku-ban Uta Awase

Literary Terms

Makura kotoba

Major Works

The Man'yôshû

The Kokinshû

The Gosenshû

The Shûishû

The Goshûishû

The Kinyôshû

The Shikashû

The Senzaishû

The Shinkokinshû