- Fujiwara no Hamanari
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For poetics, he is best known for
Kakyō Hyōshiki , the oldest extant piece of Japanese poetic criticism. In it, he attempts to apply phonetic rules ofChinese poetry toJapanese poetry .References
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Further reading
* [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0073-0548(199112)51%3A2%3C471%3AWWAMTA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4 JSTOR] Wasp Waists and Monkey Tails: A Study and Translation of Hamanari's Uta no Shiki (The Code of Poetry, 772), Also Known as Kakyo Hyoshiki (A Formulary for Verse Based on The Canons of Poetry) - Judith Rabinovitch - Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 51, No. 2 (Dec., 1991), pp. 471-560 - doi:10.2307/2719287 (Fujiwara no Hamanari is mentioned in the first sentence of the first of the 90 pages of this article. This first page is at this link and is free.)
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