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The Gyokuyōshū ("Collection of Jeweled Leaves", a title which recollects the Kin'yōshū) was an imperial anthology of Japanese waka; it was finished somewhere between 1313 and 1314 CE, two or three years after the Retired Emperor Fushimi first ordered it around 1311. It was compiled by Kygoku no Tamekane (a member of the middle branch descended from Fujiwara no Teika; this branch allied itself with the younger liberal Reizei rather than the older conservative Nijo). It consists of twenty volumes containing 2,796 poems. This and the Fugashu would be the only Imperial anthologies compiled by either the liberal Ryogoku or the liberal Reizei; this is perhaps the reason that it contains the most poems of any Imperial anthology- they knew that they would have few if any chances in the future to so decisively strike a blow in their war against the Nijo.
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