Shinshūi Wakashū

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Shinshūi Wakashū (新拾遺和歌集? "New Waka Collection of Gleanings"), occasionally abbreviated as Shinshūishū, a title which recollects the Shūi Wakashū, is 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 and 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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