One Hundred People, One Poem Each
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Around 1235, Japanese poet and scholar Fujiwara no Teika compiled for his son’s father-in-law a collection of one hundred poems by one hundred poets. Within its summary of six centuries of literature, Teika arranged a poetic conversation that ebbs and flows through various subjects. The collection became the exemplar of the genre—a mini-manual of classical poetry, taught in the standard school curriculum and used in a memory card game still played during New Years.
One Hundred People, One Poem Each contains the best that classical Japanese poetry has to offer—here presented in a revised verse translation.
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One Hundred People, One Poem Each - Smashwords
One Hundred People, One Poem Each
a collection of classical Japanese poetry
edited by Fujiwara no Teika
translated by Larry Hammer
Cholla Bear Press, Tucson
ChollaBearLogoCopyright © 2011, 2019 Larry Hammer
First edition October 2011
Revised edition March 2019
ISBNs:
978-1790497690 (print)
978-1370583133 (ebook)
Cover painting: The Dragon of Smoke Escaping from Mt. Fuji, Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), courtesy WikiMedia Commons.
For Janni
everything, always
ALSO BY LARRY HAMMER:
as translator
Ice Melts in the Wind
These Things Called Dreams
as editor
Important Beyond All This
Story Lines
First League Out
CONTENTS
Introduction
1. Emperor Tenji
2. Empress Jitō
3. Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
4. Yamabe no Akahito
5. Sarumaru
6. Ōtomo no Yakamochi
7. Abe no Nakamaro
8. Kisen
9. Ono no Komachi
10. Semimaru
11. Ono no Takamura
12. Henjō
13. Emperor Yōzei
14. Minamoto no Tōru
15. Emperor Kōkō
16. Ariwara no Yukihira
17. Ariwara no Narihira
18. Fujiwara no Toshiyuki
19. Ise
20. Prince Motoyoshi
21. Sosei
22. Fun’ya no Yasuhide
23. Ōe no Chisato
24. Sugawara no Michizane
25. Fujiwara no Sadakata
26. Fujiwara no Tadahira
27. Fujiwara no Kanesuke
28. Minamoto no Muneyuki
29. Ōshikōchi no Mitsune
30. Mibu no Tadamine
31. Sakanoue no Korenori
32. Harumichi no Tsuraki
33. Ki no Tomonori
34. Fujiwara no Okikaze
35. Ki no Tsurayuki
36. Kiyowara no Fukayabu
37. Fun’ya no Asayasu
38. Ukon
39. Minamoto no Hitoshi
40. Taira no Kanemori
41. Mibu no Tadami
42. Kiyowara no Motosuke
43. Fujiwara no Atsutada
44. Fujiwara no Asatada
45. Fujiwara no Koretada
46. Sone no Yoshitada
47. Egyō
48. Minamoto no Shigeyuki
49. Onakatomi no Yoshinobu
50. Fujiwara no Yoshitaka
51. Fujiwara no Sanekata
52. Fujiwara no Michinobu
53. Mother of Michitsuna
54. Mother of Korechika
55. Fujiwara no Kintō
56. Izumi Shikibu
57. Murasaki Shikibu
58. Daini no Sanmi
59. Akazome Emon
60. Koshikibu no Naishi
61. Ise no Tayū
62. Sei Shōnagon
63. Fujiwara no Michimasa
64. Fujiwara no Sadayori
65. Sagami
66. Gyōson
67. Suō no Naishi
68. Emperor Sanjō
69. Nōin
70. Ryōzen
71. Minamoto no Tsunenobu
72. Kii
73. Ōe no Masafusa
74. Minamoto no Toshiyori
75. Fujiwara no Mototoshi
76. Fujiwara no Tadamichi
77. Emperor Sutoku
78. Minamoto no Kanemasa
79. Fujiwara no Akisuke
80. Empress Taiken’s Horikawa
81. Fujiwara no Sanesada
82. Dōin
83. Fujiwara no Toshinari
84. Fujiwara no Kiyosuke
85. Shun’e
86. Saigyō
87. Jakuren
88. Attendant to Empress Kōka
89. Princess Shokushi
90. Attendant to Empress Inpu
91. Fujiwara no Yoshitsune
92. Sanuki
93. Minamoto no Sanetomo
94. Fujiwara no Masatsune
95. Jien
96. Fujiwara no Kintsune
97. Fujiwara no Teika
98. Fujiwara no Ietaka
99. Emperor Go-Toba
100. Emperor Juntoku
Also by the Translator
INTRODUCTION
AROUND 1235, Fujiwara no Teika compiled for his son’s father-in-law a collection of one hundred poems by one hundred poets, a common type of anthology at the time. Partly because of Teika’s stature as Japan’s last great classical poet and partly because, within its roughly chronological history of Japanese poetry to date, he selected a variety of subjects and styles, it became the exemplar of the genre—to the point that referring to just the Hyakunin Isshu without modifier means this 100 People, 1 Poem (Each).
It was treated a mini-manual of classical poetry, taught in the standard school curriculum, and used as the basis of a memory card game still sometimes played at