Uta-awase (歌合 or 歌合せ, sometimes romanized utaawase), poetry contests or waka matches, are a distinctive feature of the Japanese literary landscape from...

Bärtsch's Ronin E-awase (絵合), painting contest among Japanese nobles during the Kamakura period Kai-awase (貝合わせ),Japanese game with shells Uta-awase (歌合せ), Japanese...

peers, as in the older uta-awase poetry contests. It was a popular entertainment at parties and social gatherings. An e-awase contest of this type appears...

In Japanese poetry, honkadori (本歌取り) is an allusion within a poem to an older poem which would be generally recognized by its potential readers. Honkadori...

tools having a human personality, tools such as the "chōdo uta-awase" that would perform uta-awase can be found before the Muromachi period, and it is thought...

by Tosa Mitsunobu, from the Songs of the Seventy-one Craftsmen (七十一番職人歌合 Shichijūichi-ban Shokunin Uta-awase), a poetry anthology written around 1500...

prize. Holding Uta-awase was expensive and possible only for Emperors or very high ranked kuge. The size of Uta-awase increased. Uta-awase were recorded...

also a distinguished poet. He emerged as an important poet in an early uta-awase or poetry match, Koresada no miko no ie no uta'awase (是貞の親王家歌合, The Poetry...

from Portuguese-suited playing cards and those from e-awase. E-awase originally derived from kai-awase, which was played with shells but were converted to...

were two types of waka party that produced occasional poetry: Utakai and Uta-awase. Utakai was a party in which all participants wrote a waka and recited...

by Tosa Mitsunobu, from the Songs of the Seventy-one Craftsmen (七十一番職人歌合 Shichijūichi-ban Shokunin Uta-awase), a poetry anthology written around 1500...

performed religious professions. The existence of jishas are attested in some uta-awase. 如何にしてけうとく人の思ふらむ我も女のまねかたぞかし "Why do people find me so unpleasant? Because...

of several uta-awase gatherings: the Ninna Ninomiya Uta-awase (仁和二宮歌合, 893 or earlier), the Kanpyō no Oontoki Kisai no Miya no Uta-awase (寛平御時后宮歌合, also...

Sanbyaku-ban Uta-awase (南朝三百番歌合, 1371); the Nanchō Gohyaku-ban Uta-awase (南朝五百番歌合, 1375); the Sumiyoshi-sha Sanbyaku-rokujū-ban Uta-awase (住吉社三百六十番歌合,...

at the Imperial University. The record of the Dajō Daijin-den Sanjikkō Uta-awase (太政大臣殿三十講歌合), dating from the fifth month of Chōho 5 (1003 in the Julian...

poetry gatherings (uta-kai) and competitions (uta-awase) such as the famous Roppyaku-ban Uta-awase [ja] and Sengohyaku-ban Uta-awase [ja] were held, with...

summer of Kajō 2 (1107). The first uta-awase contest in which he took part was the Jōryaku Ninen Dairi Uta-awase (承暦二年内裏歌合) in Jōryaku 2 (1078). He took...

contributing poems to uta-awase competitions on the sixteenth day of the fifth month of Chōgen 8 (1035), the Kanpaku-Sadaijin-ke Uta-awase (関白左大臣家歌合), and 1041...

some eleven thousand works includes two National Treasures (the Kasen Uta-awase scroll and the Southern Song celadon vase with phoenix ears known as Bansei)...

Japanese reckoning). The first uta-awase contest in which he took part was the Sakon no Gon-Chūjō Toshitada Ason-ke Uta-awase (左近権中将俊忠朝臣家歌合) in Chōji 1 (1104)...

913: Participated in the Uda Waka Poetry Competition (亭子院歌合, Teijin Uta-awase) organized by Emperor Uda. April: Appointed Chief Scribe (大内記, Dainaiki)...

large number of uta-awase, including the Kasuga Wakamiya-sha Uta-awase (春日若宮社歌合) and the Munetaka-shinnō-ke Hyakugojū-ban Uta-awase (宗尊親王家百五十番歌合), as...

when, at 26, he took part in the Dewa-no-kami Tsunenaka-ke uta-awase (出羽守経仲家歌合, "Uta-awase contest at the home of Tsunenaka, the governor of Dewa Province")...

sixteenth year she went to serve at court. While there, she took part in an uta-awase contest at the palace, and when her poetic skill was ridiculed by the...

sixth month of 1302 he participated in an uta-awase, and the following year took part in the Go-Nijō-in uta-awase. He was also included in the Kagen sentō...

poetry acquired a status comparable to kanshi. Waka were composed at uta-awase and other official events, and the private collections of well-known poets...

disguising them as Uta-garuta. Remnants of this can be seen via the tanzaku-ranked cards. The earliest known reference to hana awase (a previous version...

including uta-awase contests and meetings for the composition of both waka and kanshi, at his residence. He participated in a number of uta-awase at the...

preparing meals, washing clothes or breastfeeding. The Sanjūni-ban Shokunin Uta-awase Emaki presents 142 artisans from the Muromachi period, ranging from a...

romantic exchanges. He hosted uta-awase contests in his residence, but did not himself compete. The Horikawa Chūnagon-ke Uta-awase in Ten'en 3 (975) was organized...