Waka (和歌, "Japanese poem") is a type of poetry in classical Japanese literature. Although waka in modern Japanese is written as 和歌, in the past it was...

compiled in 751. Waka is a type of poetry in classical Japanese literature. Unlike kanshi, waka refers to poetry composed in Japanese. Waka is sometimes also...

Kokinshū, the short poem became the dominant form of poetry in Japan, and the originally general word waka (和歌, "Japanese poem") became the standard name for...

class of sacred objects Waka (poetry), a genre of Japanese poetry WAKA (TV), a television station licensed to Selma, Alabama, US Waka music, a musical genre...

well known for his waka poetry and is counted as one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals selected by Fujiwara no Kintō; his poetry was included also in...

Fujiwara no Kintō, the editor of Wakan Rōeishū. It gave influence to the waka poetry in the middle Heian period. Hyakunin Isshu, or more precisely Ogura Hyakunin...

was a transitional period between the waka anthologies Man'yōshū and Kokin wakashū. When discussing the waka poetry of this period, some scholars have referred...

view the Moon's reflection on the surface of the water. The writing of waka poetry was also an element of such mid-autumn Moon viewing festivities. There...

innovations in the waka poetic form and for compiling Senzai Wakashū ("Collection of a Thousand Years"), the seventh Imperial anthology of waka poetry,; father...

Makurakotoba (枕詞, lit. 'pillow words') are figures of speech used in Japanese waka poetry in association with certain words. The set phrase can be thought of as...

Imperial Family." She wrote her senior thesis on Princess Shikishi and her waka (poetry in classical Japanese literature). From the age of 16, Aiko began accompanying...

Ōsuke, was a Japanese waka poet active in the later Heian period (early 11th century). She is one of the later Thirty-six Poetry Immortals, and one of...

was a poet in Japan's Nara period who composed both waka (poetry in Japanese) and kanshi (poetry in Chinese). Asada no Yasu was active in the Nara period...

abbreviated as Kokinshū (古今集), is an early anthology of the waka form of Japanese poetry, dating from the Heian period. An imperial anthology, it was...

of Japan. He is regarded as an excellent poet, particularly in waka and kanshi poetry, and is today revered in Shinto as the god of learning, Tenman-Tenjin...

Principles", referring to the six elements in waka poetry, based on the traditional division of Chinese poetry into six categories. The gardens consist of...

This cadet branch was named the Tō clan (東氏) and due to their skill at waka poetry, became close retainers of the Ashikaga shogunate in the Muromachi period...

court fiction (monogatari) continuing to be written, and composition of waka poetry reaching new heights in the age of the Shin-kokin Wakashū, an anthology...

The Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry (三十六歌仙, Sanjūrokkasen) are a group of Japanese poets of the Asuka, Nara, and Heian periods selected by Fujiwara no Kintō...

chokusenshū (勅撰集), were imperially-commissioned Japanese anthologies of waka poetry. They numbered 21 in total (called nijūichidaishū). The term chokusen...

Japanese waka poetry. Mishima's early contributions to the Gakushūin literary magazine Hojinkai-zasshi (輔仁会雑誌) included haiku and waka poetry before he...

of Ten Thousand Leaves") is the oldest extant collection of Japanese waka (poetry in Classical Japanese), compiled sometime after AD 759 during the Nara...

was a Japanese waka poet and noble from the middle Heian period. She is enumerated as one of the Thirty-Six Female Immortals of Poetry alongside famous...

1967, at the age of 81. Byakuren Yanagiwara's work include waka poetry, novels and poetry collections. Fumi-e (踏絵, 1915) Maboroshi no Hana (幻の華, 1919)...

same fate as his elder brother, put his time and energy into writing waka poetry and gaining posts within the powerless but honorary imperial court. Sanetomo...

centuries. It is an uta monogatari (a work combining narrative fiction with waka poetry) from the 10th-century Japan. The exact date of the completion of the...

These trees have inspired Japanese waka poetry and folk songs for centuries, including a waka in the 10th century poetry compilation Kokin Wakashū. Yoshino...

conversationally as the Shin Kokin, is the eighth imperial anthology of waka poetry compiled by the Japanese court, beginning with the Kokin Wakashū circa...

oldest collection of Japanese poetry, written in Japanese with Chinese characters through Man'yōgana and compiling waka poetry from the fifth to eighth centuries...

also called a shikashū (私家集) or ie-no-shū (家の集), is a private collection of waka poems compiled by the author of the poems included. The term is used in contrast...