Fukuro-sōshi

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Fukuro-sōshi

Fukuro-sōshi

The Fukuro-sōshi (袋草紙) is a Heian Period poetry anthology dated to 1159.1

The poems consist of waka style and it was written by Fujiwara no Kiyosuke.2

Footnotes

1. Yoda, H. and Alt, M. (2016) “Japandemonium: Illustrated: The Yokai Encyclopaedia of Toriyama Sekien.”. New York: Dover Publications, Inc.
2. Louis Frederic, translated by Kathe Roth (2002) “Japan Encyclopedia”. London: Harvard University Press.

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