Shinshūi Wakashū Explained

, occasionally abbreviated as Shinshūishū, a title which recollects the Shūi Wakashū, is the 19th imperial anthology of Japanese waka poetry. It was finished late in 1364 CE, a year after Emperor Go-Kōgon first ordered it in 1363 at the request of the Ashikaga Shōgun Ashikaga Yoshiakira. It was compiled by Nijō Tameaki (1295-1364),^[1] a member of the older conservative Nijō house, who died in 1364 and was unable to complete his task; the priest Ton'a finished it. It consists of twenty volumes containing 1,920 poems.

References

• pg. 486 of Japanese Court Poetry, Earl Miner, Robert H. Brower. 1961, Stanford University Press, LCCN 61-10925

Notes and References

1. Book: Mass, Jeffrey P. . The Origins of Japan's Medieval World: Courtiers, Clerics, Warriors, and Peasants in the Fourteenth Century . 1997 . Stanford University Press . 978-0-8047-4379-2 . en.