Senzai Wakashū

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The Senzai Wakashū (千載和歌集, Collection of a Thousand Years^?), often abbreviated as Senzaishū, is an imperial anthology of Japanese waka compiled in 1187 at the behest of the Retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa who ordered it in 1183, by Fujiwara no Shunzei. It consists of twenty volumes containing 1,285 poems.

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• pg. 484 of Japanese Court Poetry, Earl Miner, Robert H. Brower. 1961, Stanford University Press, LCCN 61-10925