- Bunka Shūreishū
is the second imperially commissioned Japanese kanshi collection. The text was compiled by
Fujiwara no Fuyutsugu ,Sugawara no Kiyotomo ,Nakao Ō ,Isayama no Fumitugu ,Shigeno no Sadanushi , andKuwahara no Haraaka under the command ofEmperor Saga . The text was completed c.818 , four years after the previous imperial collection, "Ryōunshū ".Contents
The text is three volumes in length. It begins with a preface by Nakao Ō. The main text contains 148 poems composed by 28 authors, including poems from an
814 Balhae delegation. However, only 143 poems still exist as the final five have since been lost.While "Ryōunshū" ordered its poems by author, "Bunka Shūreishū" orders its poems by subject matter:
Volume 1
*Sights (遊覧)
*Banquets (宴集)
*Partings (餞別)
*Exchanges (贈答)Volume 2
*Historical (詠史)
*Reminiscence (述懐)
*Love (艶情)
*Yue fu (楽府)
*Buddhist (梵門)
*Laments (哀傷)Volume 3
*Miscellaneous (雑詠)References
* cite book
last = Kojima
first = Noriyuki
title = Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei: Kaifūsō, Bunka Shūreishū, Honchō Monzui
publisher = Iwanami Shoten
date = 1964
language = Japanese
id = ISBN 4-00-060069-9
* cite book
last = Kubota
first = Jun
title = Iwanami Nihon Koten Bungaku Jiten
publisher = Iwanami Shoten
date = 2007
language = Japanese
id = ISBN 978-4-00-080310-6
* cite book
last = Nihon Koten Bungaku Daijiten Henshū Iinkai
title = Nihon Koten Bungaku Daijiten
publisher = Iwanami Shoten
date = 1986
language = Japanese
id = ISBN 4-00-080067-1
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