The is a Japanese
imperial anthology
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of
waka poetry. It was finished somewhere around 1320 CE, two years after the
Retired Emperor Go-Uda first ordered it in 1318. It was compiled by
Fujiwara no Tameyo (who also compiled the ''
Shingosen Wakashū'', and was a member of the older conservative
Nijō). It consists of twenty volumes containing 2,159 poems.
References
*pg. 485 of ''Japanese Court Poetry'',
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Japanese poetry anthologies
1320s in Japan
14th-century literature
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