Hyakunin Isshu
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Hyakunin isshu (百人一首) is a traditional style of compiling Japanese waka poetry where each contributor writes one poem for the anthology. Literally, it translates to "one hundred people, one poem [each]". It also refers to the card game of uta-garuta which has rather different rules.
The most famous hyakunin isshu, often referred to as the Hyakunin Isshu because no other one compares to its notability, is the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, compiled by Fujiwara no Teika (or Sadaie, 1162 – 1241) while he lived in the Ogura district of Kyoto, Japan.
One of Teika's diaries, the Meigetsuki, says that his son, Fujiwara no Tame'ie, asked him to arrange one hundred poems for Tame'ie's father-in-law, who was furnishing a residence near Mount Ogura; hence the full name of "Ogura Hyakunin Isshu".
References
- Fujiwara no Sadaie, editor, The Little Treasury of One Hundred People, One Poem Each, translated by Tom Galt, Princeton University Press 1982
- Mostow, Joshua, trans., Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image, University of Hawai'i Press, 1996. Contains translations of each poem and analysis of illustrations of the poem collection in the Edo period.
External links
- [Ogura Hyakunin Isshu - 100 Poems by 100 Poets] at University of Virginia Library Japanese Text Initiative
- [Modern translation and commentary] -(work in progress by Mark Jewel at his [The Japanese Literature Home Page]
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