Shinshuishu

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The Shinshuishū ("New Collection of Gleanings", a title which recollects the Shūishū) was the 19th imperial anthology of Japanese waka; it was finished late in 1364 CE, a year after Emperor Go-Kogon first ordered it in 1363 at the request of the Ashikaga Shogun Ashikaga Yoshiakira. It was compiled by Fujiwara no Tameakira (or Tameaki, a member of the older conservative Nijo house), who unfortunately died in 1363 & was unable to complete his task; the priest Ton'a finished it. It consists of twenty volumes containing 1,920 poems.

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• pg. 486 of Japanese Court Poetry, Earl Miner, Robert H. Brower. 1961, Stanford University Press, LCCN 61-10925