新古今和歌集
Shin-Kokin Waka Shuu
古今和歌集
Kokin Waka Shuu
万葉集
Man'you Shuu
Anthology
Title
mysterious,
sublime beauty
(幽玄、ゆうげん,
yuugen)

thoughtful
construction
or composition
(有心、うしん,ushin)
sentiment with
artistic sensibility
(情趣、じょうしゅ,
joushu)
emotionally
moving
(感動、かんどう,
kandou)
Dominant
aesthetic
principles
opulent,
gorgeous,
sensual beauty
(艶麗、
えんれい, enrei)
courtly elegance
of classical, proper,
disciplined beauty
(優雅典麗、
ゆうがてんれい,
yuuga tenrei)
unaffected,
vigorous,
virilebeauty
(素朴勇健、
そぼくゆうけん,
soboku yuuken)
Style
short poem or
Japanese poem
(短歌、たんか,tanka;
和歌、わか,waka)

7-5 rhythm
(breaks come
after line 3)

often ends with
体言or 連体形
short poem or
Japanese poem
(短歌、たんか, tanka;

和歌、わか, waka)

7-5 rhythm
(breaks come
after line 3)

often ends with
助動詞
long poem
(長歌、ちょうか,
chouka)

short poem or
Japanese poem
(短歌、たんか,
tanka;
和歌、わか, waka)

5-7rhythm
(breaks come
after line 2 orl ine 4)

often ends in
助詞
Form
"taking up an older poem"; allusive variation
(本歌取、ほんかどり,
honkadori)
pivoting words
word junctions
(掛詞・懸詞、
かけことば,
kakekotoba)

relatedword
(縁語、えんご,engo)
pillowing words
(枕詞、
まくらことば,
makurakotoba)

preface
(序、じょ,jo)
Prominent
poetic
technique
1205
905?
after 759
Date
1978 poems
in 20 scrolls
1100 poems
in 20 scrolls
4536 poems
in 20 scrolls
Anthology
structure
seasons
felicitous poems
laments
travel poems
love poems
misc. poems
sacred poems
Buddhist poems
seasons
felicitous poems
parting poems
travel poems
poems about objects
love poems
laments
misc. poems
laments
(挽歌、ばんか,
banka)

exchanged
poems
(相問、そうもん,
soumon)

misc.poems
Typesof
poems
broadly
defined
Fujiwara no
Teika and others
Ki no
Tsurayuki and others
Otomo no
Yakamochi
Compiler
Priest Saigyou

Fujiwara no
Shunzei

Princess Shikishi

Fujiwara no
Teika
Ariwara no
Narihira

Ono no
Komachi

Ki no
Tsurayuki

Ise
Nukata

Kakinomoto no
Hitomaro

Yamabe no
Akahito

Yamanoue no
Okura

Otomo no
Tabito

Otomo no
Yakamochi
Poets
noted
in class