is a late 13th century collection of poetry from Japanese

Japan

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 literature..

Composition

The collection of poems was compiled in the year 1271. Although this is not completely certain, the author is believed to be Fujiwara no Tameie

Fujiwara no Tameie

was a Japanese poet and compiler of Imperial anthologies of poems.Tameie was the second son of poets Teika and Abutuni; and he was the central figure in a circle of Japanese poets after Jōkyū War in 1221. His three sons were Nijō Tameuji, Kyōgoku Tamenori and Reizei Tamesuke...

. According to the preface, the collection was commissioned by Emperor Go-Saga

Emperor Go-Saga

Emperor Go-Saga was the 88th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession...

's consort, Ōmiya-in Kisshi.

Contents

The text was originally twenty volumes in length. However, only the first eighteen are currently extant. It contains 1418 poems collected from 198 various tsukuri-monogatari

Monogatari

is a literary form in traditional Japanese literature, an extended prose narrative tale comparable to the epic. Monogatari is closely tied to aspects of the oral tradition, and almost always relates a fictional or fictionalized story, even when retelling a historical event...

. These are sorted into eleven categories, as detailed in the preface. Details of the author and context is given for each poem.

The contents of the now missing 19th and 20th volumes are unknown. It contained one of the eleven categories.

Value

Many of the cited texts are either completely or partially no longer extant. Along with Mumyōzōshi

Mumyōzōshi

is an early 13th century Japanese text. One volume in length, it is the oldest existing Japanese text on literary criticism. The author is unknown.-Composition:...

, Fūyō Wakashū is highly valued as a resource for research on lost literature. Yoru no Nezame

Yoru no Nezame

is a c. 11th century Japanese story. It is one of the major representative Heian period texts. It is a courtly romance and belongs to the tsukuri monogatari genre.-Composition:...

and Hamamatsu Chūnagon Monogatari

Hamamatsu Chūnagon Monogatari

, also known as , is an eleventh century Japanese monogatari that tells about a chūnagon who discovers his father has been reborn as a Chinese prince. He visits his reincarnated father in China and falls in love with the Hoyang Consort, consort to the Chinese Emperor and mother to his reincarnated...

are two examples of fragmentary texts in which it serves to supplement the missing parts.

See also

• Mumyōzōshi
  Mumyōzōshi
  is an early 13th century Japanese text. One volume in length, it is the oldest existing Japanese text on literary criticism. The author is unknown.-Composition:...
  
  , a literary criticism on Japanese stories and poetry, many of which are no longer extant