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Chōyaku Hyakunin Isshu: Uta Koi (超訳百人一首 うた恋い) (English: "One Hundred Poems Super Translation: Love Song") is a Japanese historical Josei manga written and illustrated by Kei Sugita, and published by Media Factory. An anime adaptation by TYO Animations began airing in July 2012.
The majority of these are love poems exchanged between men and women, [2] but they are not all love poems, [3] and the term also covers poems exchanged between friends, [1] parents and children, [3] and siblings. [3] One example of the latter group is the following poem (MYS II : 103) by Princess Ōku about her younger brother Prince Ōtsu: [3]
Lady Kasa (笠郎女, Kasa no Iratsume) was a Japanese female waka poet of the early 8th century.. Little is known of her except what is preserved in her 29 surviving poems in the Man'yōshū; all these were love poems addressed to her lover Ōtomo no Yakamochi who compiled the Man'yōshū (and who is known to have had at least 14 other lovers and to have broken up with her).
[4] According to one tradition, she was born in what is now Akita Prefecture, daughter of Yoshisada, Lord of Dewa. [5] The Noh play Sotoba Komachi by Kan'ami describes her as "the daughter of Ono no Yoshizane, the governor of Dewa". [6] Her social status is also uncertain. She may have been a low-ranking consort or a lady-in-waiting of an emperor.
The characters in the term kasen (歌撰, "anthology of poems") is a neologism of Utamaro's; it is thought to parody the terms kasen (歌仙, "great poet[s]") and senka (撰歌, "selection of poems"). Koi no Bu (恋之部, "The Love Section") parodies the section headings in waka and kyōka poetry anthologies, which typically have sections on ...
Midaregami (みだれ髪, Tangled hair) is a collection of tanka (短歌, “Short poem”), written by the Japanese writer Akiko Yosano during the Meiji period in 1901. [1] Although later celebrated for its softly feminist depictions of a woman's sexual freedom , her work suffered heavy criticism at the time of publication for subverting ...
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Today ryūka may be classified into 1) celebration poetry 2) seasonal or scenery poetry 3) love poetry 4) teaching poetry 5) travel poetry 6) smallpox poetry. Of these classifications, love poetry is well described in ryūka. Peculiar is the smallpox poetry; the purpose of glorification of smallpox demon is improvement from deadly infection of ...