小倉百人一首

小倉百人一首

Japanese

Examples

Poem 1 (Gosen Wakashū, book 6, poem 302 by Emperor Tenji): 秋の田のかりほの庵の苫をあらみわが衣手は露にぬれつつ aki no ta no kariho no io no toma o arami waga koromode wa tsuyu ni nuretsutsu In autumn paddies my makeshift hut is so coarsely thatched my sleeves become soaked with dew.[1] Poem 100 (Shokugosen Wakashū, book 18, poem 1205 by former Emperor Juntoku): ももしきや古き軒端のしのぶにもなほあまりある昔なりけり momoshiki ya furuki nokiba no shinobu ni mo nao amari aru mukashi narikeri In the stone-built palace the old leaves are overgrown with Memory Fern―but ah, what a past is here still left to be remembered![2]

Kanji in this term
小	倉	百	人	一	首
お Grade: 1	くら > ぐら Grade: 4	ひゃく Grade: 1	にん Grade: 1	いち > いっ Grade: 1	しゅ Grade: 2
kun’yomi		goon

Etymology

From 小倉 (Ogura, a district in Kyoto) +‎ 百人一首 (hyakunin isshu, “one hundred poems by one hundred poets anthology”).

Proper noun

小(お)倉(ぐら)百(ひゃく)人(にん)一(いっ)首(しゅ) • (Ogura Hyakunin Isshu) ^{←をぐらひやくにんいつしゆ (Wogura Fyakunin Itusyu)?}

1. the famous of the “one hundred poems by one hundred poets” anthologies, compiled by Fujiwara no Teika in c. 1235, used in the basis of certain card games

   Synonyms: 小倉百首 (Ogura Hyakushu), 百人一首 (Hyakunin Isshu), 百人首 (Hyakuninshu)

See also

• 歌(うた)ガルタ (uta-garuta)
• 百(ひゃく)人(にん)秀(しゅう)歌(か) (Hyakunin Shūka)
• Appendix:Ogura Hyakunin Isshu

References

1. Princess Shikishi (1993), Hiroaki Sato, transl., String of Beads: Complete Poems of Princess Shikishi, illustrated edition, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 109
2. Steven D. Carter (1991) Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology, illustrated edition, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 238