Hyakunin Isshu

Monument to Teika in Ogura, Kyōto; built on the 700th anniversary of death

Hyakunin Isshu ( Japanese 百 人 一 首 ) describes a certain type of collection of waka poems in Japan . The editor of the collection selects a hundred poems by a hundred poets and puts them together in an anthology . Correspondingly translated, Hyakunin Isshu means "a hundred poems by a hundred poets".

Ogura Hyakunin Isshu

The best known of these anthologies is Ogura Hyakunin Isshu ( 小 倉 百 人 一 首 ), which was compiled in 1235 by Fujiwara no Teika (other reading Fujiwara no Sadaie) while he was living in the Ogura district of Kyoto . It includes poems from more than five centuries and gives an overview of the poetry at the court of Tennō in approximately chronological order .
For centuries it served as a stimulus for poetry students to write their own poems. At the beginning of the 17th century, Ogura Hyakunin Isshu became the subject of a popular parlor game, Uta-Garuta . From the middle of the 17th century the anthology was printed in book form, with comments and imaginary pictures of the authors. It is still very popular in Japan to this day.

See also

• List of poets in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu

literature

• Jürgen Berndt: As if it were the last light of the moon in the early morning. A hundred poems by a hundred poets from Japan. Berlin 1986, DNB 861177924 .
• William N. Porter: A Hundred Verses from Old Japan. Charles Tuttle, Rutland, Vermont 1979, ISBN 0-8048-1256-X . (Reprint of the 1909 edition) (Tanka in Romaji with explanations)
• Fujiwara no Sadaie (Ed.): The Little Treasury of One Hundred People, One Poem Each . English translation by Tom Galt. Princeton University Press, 1982.
• Henk J. Herwig, Joshua S. Mostow: The hundred poets compared - a print series by Kuniyoshi, Hiroshige, and Kunisada. Hotei, Leiden 2007, ISBN 978-90-74822-82-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Henk J. Herwig, Joshua S. Mostow: The hundred poets compared ... 2007, p. 13.
2. ↑ Henk J. Herwig, Joshua S. Mostow: The hundred poets compared ... 2007, p. 14.

Web links

Commons : Hyakunin Isshu  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: 小 倉 百 人 一 首  - Sources and full texts (Japanese)

• Hyakunin Isshu in the original, romanized and translated into English on the Electronic Text Center website of the University of Virginia Library
• Annotated English translation of the poems ( Memento of July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English)

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Fujiwara is the family name, Teika the first name.