- Keikokushū
is the third imperially commissioned Japanese kanshi collection. The text was compiled by
Yoshimine no Yasuyo ,Minabuchi no Hirosada ,Sugawara no Kiyotomo ,Yasuno no Fumitugu ,Shigeno no Sadanushi , andAbe no Yoshihito under the command ofEmperor Junna . The text was completed in827 , 13 years after the previous imperial collection, "Bunka Shūreishū ".Contents
The text is twenty volumes in length. However, only six of those still remain: 1, 10, 11, 13, 14, and 20. It contains material spanning 120 years from
707 to827 with contributions from 178 authors. In addition to 917 poems, it also contains 17 fu and 38 civil promotion tests.References
* 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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