Kokin Wakashū

The idea of including old as well as new poems was another important innovation, one which was widely adopted in later works, both in prose and verse.

One online edition,[1] which follows the Date Family text based on a manuscript prepared by Fujiwara no Teika, contains 1,111 poems.

The collection is divided into twenty parts, reflecting older models such as the Man'yōshū and various Chinese anthologies.

The following divisions of the Kokinshū mention the Japanese names of the parts,[1] their modern readings,[2][3] and their English translations.

Major poets of the Kokinshū include Ariwara no Narihira, Ono no Komachi, Henjō and Fujiwara no Okikaze, apart from the compilers themselves.

[5][6][7] A translation by Laurel Rasplica Rodd titled Kokinshū: A Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern was published in 1984 by Princeton University Press.