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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).
The Kokinshū is the first of the Nijūichidaishū (二十一代集), the 21 collections of Japanese poetry compiled at Imperial request.It was the most influential realization of the ideas of poetry at the time, dictating the form and format of Japanese poetry until the late nineteenth century; it was the first anthology to divide itself into seasonal and love poems.
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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TOKYO (AP) — Kazuko Shiraishi, a leading name in modern Japanese “beat” poetry, known for her dramatic readings, at times with jazz music, has died.She was 93. Shiraishi, whom American poet ...
In the ninth and tenth centuries, however, notably with the compilation of the 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 this form. [4]