About “Shingoshūi Wakashū”
Shingoshūi Wakashū, also known as Shingoshūishū, is an imperial anthology of Japanese waka poetry completed around 1383. It was commissioned by Emperor Go-Enyū in 1375 at the request of the Ashikaga Shōgun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu. The anthology was compiled by Fujiwara no Tametō and completed by Fujiwara no Tameshige. It includes a Japanese preface written by Nijō Yoshimoto, a noted conservative critic and poet associated with renga. The collection consists of twenty volumes containing 1,554 waka poems. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
Book details
- First published
- 1383
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