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The Shinsenzaishū ("New Collection of a Thousand Years", a title which recollects the Senzaishū) was an imperial anthology of Japanese waka; it was finished somewhere around 1359 CE, three years after the Emperor Go-Kogon first ordered it in 1356 at the request of the Ashikaga Shogun Ashikaga Takauji. It was compiled by Fujiwara no Tamesada (who also compiled the Shokugoshuishu, and was a member of the older conservative Nijo). It consists of twenty volumes containing 2,364 poems. The collection is considered mediocre, but an interesting example of how power continued to transfer from the Emperors to the military authorities- traditionally, announcing the collection of a new Imperial anthology was the exclusive privilege of an Emperor.
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