Shinshūi Wakashū
, occasionally abbreviated as ''Shinshūishū'', a title which recollects the ''Shūi Wakashū'', is the 19th imperial anthology of Japanese waka poetry. It was finished late in 1364 CE, a year after Emperor Go-Kōgon first ordered it in 1363 at the request of the Ashikaga Shōgun Ashikaga Yoshiakira. It was compiled by Fujiwara no Tameaki, a member of the older conservative Nijō house, who died in 1363 and was unable to complete his task; the priest Ton'a finished it. It consists of twenty volumes containing 1,920 poems. References *pg. 486 of ''Japanese Court Poetry'', Earl Miner, Robert H. Brower Robert H. Brower (March 23, 1923 – February 29, 1988) was a professor of Far East Language and Literature, Japanese Language and Literature, chair of Far East Language and Literature at the University of Michigan from 1966 to 1988. Life as a .... 1961, Stanford University Press, LCCN 61-10925 Japanese poetry anthologies Late Middle Japanese texts 1360s in Japan ...
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Shūi Wakashū
The , often abbreviated as ''Shūishū'', is the third imperial anthology of waka from Heian period Japan. It was compiled by Emperor Kazan in about 1005.Keene 1999 : 283 Its twenty volumes contain 1,351 poems. The details of its publication and compilation are unclear. believed to be a revision and enlargement by Kazan of Kintō's manuscript." Miner, Earl, Brower, Robert H. ''Japanese Court Poetry''. Stanford University Press, 1961. LCCN 61-10925 p483 They further describe it as conservative and "dominated by Kintō's preference for smooth, inoffensive style, by attenuation". --> 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 bu