This page brings together all the Personal Poetry Collections we have currently on our website as well as any little information we have gathered concerning them.

• • Akazome shū – Personal collection of Akazome Emon containing over 600 poems.²³
  • Akisuke shū – Personal collection of Fujiwara no Akisuke containing 145 poems.³
  • Chisatoshū – Personal collection of Ōe no Chisato. Also known as the kudai waka this collection comprised of a selection of waka based on lines from various Chinese poems.
  • Daini no Sanmi shū – Personal collection of Daini no Sanmi.
  • Ichijō sesshō gyoshū – Personal collection of Fujiwara no Koretada.
  • Iseshū – Personal collection of Lady Ise.
  • Kintōshū – Personal collection of Fujiwara no Kintō containing 385 poems. The personal collection is also useful to us as it alludes to the Utsubo Monogatari which has allowed scholoars to date that work to the 10th Century.³
  • Kanesuke-shū – Personal collection of Fujiwara no Kanesuke containing 125 poems.²³
  • Komachi-shū  – (Collected Poems of Komachi), created after the death of Ono no Komachi the poetry contained here is unlikely to be hers.¹
  • Minamoto no Shitagau shū – Poetry collection of Minamoto no Shitagō.
    
  • Minishū – Personal collection of Fujiwara no Ietaka containing around 3200 poems.³
  • Mitsune-shū – Poetry collection of Ōshikōchi no Mitsune, Depending on the edition it ranges from 140 to 384 (482²) poems.³ Some existing versions contain poems by friends and selections of his poems in Chinese.²
  • Motoyoshi shinnō-shū – Collection of poems of Prince Motoyoshi.
    
  • Narihirashū – Personal collection of Ariwara no Narihira.
  • Ninna Gyoshū – Personal collection of Emperor Kōkō.
    
  • Shūgyoku-shū –  Collection of poems by Jien.
    
  • Shūigūso – Personal collection of Fujiwara no Teika.
    
  • Sosei hōshi-shū – Personal collection of Priest Sosei containing 65 poems.²³
  • Takamurashū –  Also known as the Ono no Takamura shū, Takamura nikka and Takamura Monogatari. Inside only 32 poems are attributed to Ono no Takamura, but it is unlikely that many of these poems are actually by him. This piece of work could possibly even have been written in the 11th century, long after his death.²
  • Yorimasa kashū  – Personal collection of Minamoto no Yorimasa.
  • Yoshinobu-shū – Personal collection of Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu.
  • Yoshitaka-shū – Personal collection of Fujiwara no Yoshitaka

Footnotes

1. MacMillan, P. (2018) ”One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse”. St. Ives: Penguin Classics.
2. Kodansha. (1993) ”Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia”. Tokyo: Kodansha Ltd.
3. Louis Frederic, translated by Kathe Roth (2002) “Japan Encyclopedia”. London: Harvard University Press.

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• Period: Heian Period
• Occupation: Waka Poet
• Family: Emperor Yōzei (father)
• Birth: 890AD
• Death: 943AD

Prince Motoyoshi

Prince Motoyoshi (元良親王) was a member of the Imperial Family and son to Emperor Yōzei, living from 890-943AD.

During his lifetime he was known to have been a great gallant and appears in several episodes of the Tales of Yamato.

20 of his poems appear in Imperial Anthologies as well as having his poems collected in the Motoyoshi shinnō-shū.¹

One of his poems also appears in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu (No.20) and goes as follows:

Footnotes

1. MacMillan, P. (2018) ”One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse”. St. Ives: Penguin Classics.
2. Suzuki, H. et al. (1997) ”Genshoku: Ogura Hyakunin Isshu”. Tokyo: Bun’eidō.

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