Akai-shū
The Akai Shū (
Overview[edit]
The Akai Shū is a personal collection (kashū) of the waka poetry of Asukai Masachika (
Contents[edit]
The Akai Shū was compiled by Masachika's eldest son Masatoshi (
The collection is in ten books or scrolls.[1] The first book consists of 100 poems composed in the summer of Bunshō 1 (1466).[a][1] The second book consists of 100 poems composed as offerings to Sumiyoshi taisha in Bunmei 11 (1469)[b] and 50 others.[c][1] Books 3 through 6 are devoted to poems on the four seasons,[1] books 7 and 8 to love poetry,[1] and books 9 and 10 to poems on various topics (partings, travel and acrostics in book 9; laments, Buddhist and Shinto poems, and congratulations in book 10).[1]
Textual tradition[edit]
The first text of the work dates to Meiō 1 (1492),[1] but the standard edition was probably completed at some time before Daiei 3 (1523).[1]
Three forms of the 1492 text are in the manuscript held by the Matsudaira Archives in Shimabara, Nagasaki (
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Works cited[edit]
- Mimura, Terunori (1983). "Akai Shū". Nihon Koten Bungaku Daijiten
日本 古典 文学 大 辞典 (in Japanese). Vol. 1. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten. p. 14. OCLC 11917421.