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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• Reign: 884-887AD
• Born: 830AD
• Period: Heian Period
• Family: Emperor Ninmyō (father) Minamoto no Muneyuki (grandson)
• Order of Succession: Predecessor Emperor Yōzei * Successor Emperor Uda

Emperor Kōkō

Emperor Kōkō (光孝天皇) was the 58th Emperor of Japan living from 830-871AD and reigning from 884-887AD.¹

Family

Kōkō was the third son of Emperor Ninmyō¹ and grandfather of the poet Minamoto no Muneyuki.¹

Reign

He was the protégé of Fujiwara no Mototsune and was placed on the throne (aged 54¹) after Mototsune had Emperor Yōzei deposed. Mototsune would then see Kōkō deposed for Emperor Uda.²

Contemporary sources give him the name Emperor of the Ninna Era.¹

Poetry

In total for him we can find 14 poems in Imperial Anthologies, in addition to a personal collection called the Ninna Gyoshū.

One of his poems (No.15) can be found in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu and goes as follows:¹

Japanese text3	Romanized Japanese1	English translation1
君がため 春の野に出でて 若菜つむ わが衣手に 雪はふりつつ	Kimi ga tame haru no no ni idete wakana tsumu waga koromode ni yuki wa furitsutsu	For you, I came out to the fields to pick the first spring greens. All the while, on my sleeves a light snow falling.

Footnotes

1. MacMillan, P. (2018) ”One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse”. St. Ives: Penguin Classics.
2. Louis Frederic, translated by Kathe Roth (2002) “Japan Encyclopedia”. London: Harvard University Press.
3. Suzuki, H. et al. (1997) ”Genshoku: Ogura Hyakunin Isshu”. Tokyo: Bun’eidō.

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