古今和歌集(こきんわかしゅう)

こきんわかしゅう
noun (proper)
the Kokin Wakashu (first imperial waka anthology)
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1. the Kokin Wakashu (anthology of waka, c. 905)
The first anthology of waka poetry compiled by imperial command, in the early tenth century, by Ki no Tsurayuki and others. Its roughly 1,100 poems and its preface set the model of courtly taste for centuries. Often called 古今集(こきんしゅう).
古今和歌集(こきんわかしゅう)を読(よ)む。
To read the Kokin Wakashu.
古今和歌集(こきんわかしゅう)は平安時代(へいあんじだい)に編(あ)まれた。
The Kokin Wakashu was compiled in the Heian period.
古今和歌集(こきんわかしゅう)は、醍醐天皇(だいごてんのう)の命令(めいれい)で紀貫之(きのつらゆき)らがまとめた最初(さいしょ)の勅撰和歌集(ちょくせんわかしゅう)だ。
The Kokin Wakashu is the first imperial anthology of waka, compiled by Ki no Tsurayuki and others at the order of Emperor Daigo.

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