Gosen Wakashū

Gosen Wakashū. Fragment of the manuscript

The Gosen Wakashū (後撰和歌集, Later Collection of Japanese Poems), often abbreviated as Gosenshū ("Later Collection"), is an imperial anthology of Japanese waka compiled in 951 at the behest of Emperor Murakami by the Five Men of the Pear Chamber: Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu (922-991), Kiyohara no Motosuke (908-990), Minamoto no Shitagō (911-983), Ki no Tokibumi (flourished ~950), and Sakanoue no Mochiki (flourished ~950). It consists of twenty volumes containing 1,426 poems.

Its name "Later Collection" comes from the fact that the anthology is made up of primarily poems which were considered for inclusion in the Kokin Wakashū but which were ultimately rejected. Most of those poems were sub-par, and so this anthology is not regarded as being of especial merit, but is interesting because of the lengthy prose fictional settings (as narrated in headnotes and footnotes) for the poems.

References

pg. 482-483 of Japanese Court Poetry, Earl Miner, Robert H. Brower. 1961, Stanford University Press, LCCN 61-10925

External links

Gosen Wakashū text from the Japanese Text Initiative

Japanese poetry

Major forms	haikai kanshi waka haiku hokku renga renku senryū tanka

Poetry works and collections	List of Japanese poetry anthologies Kaifūsō Man'yōshū Nijūichidaishū Kai Ōi

Individuals and groups of Japanese poets	Japanese poets (category list)

Individual poems	Articles with poems

Imperial Poetry Anthologies

Hachidaishū	Kokin Wakashū Gosen Wakashū Shūi Wakashū Goshūi Wakashū Kin'yō Wakashū Shika Wakashū Senzai Wakashū Shin Kokin Wakashū

Jūsandaishū	Shinchokusen Wakashū Shokugosen Wakashū Shokukokin Wakashū Shokushūi Wakashū Shingosen Wakashū Gyokuyō Wakashū Shokusenzai Wakashū Shokugoshūi Wakashū Fūga Wakashū Shinsenzai Wakashū Shinshūi Wakashū Shingoshūi Wakashū Shinshokukokin Wakashū

Related	Shin'yō Wakashū

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 186706624 LCCN: n82047243 GND: 7753383-5 NDL: 00633654

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