INTRODUCTION
1. The statement appears in a 1928 letter to Seymour Adelman of Trinity College. The Letters of A. E. Housman, ed. Archie Burnett (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007), 68.
2. Shōtetsu monogatari, 202. Here and elsewhere throughout this book Japanese sources are cited in abbreviated form. Full bibliographic information is available in “Sources of Japanese Texts” in the back matter.
3. I should note that I have not changed waka to uta in long-established compounds such as uta-awase (poem contest), sakimori no uta (songs by guardians of the capes), etc., nor have I altered quotations in which the term uta rather than waka is used.
4. Earl Miner, Introduction to Japanese Court Poetry, p. 11.
APPENDIX 1: TECHNICAL TERMS
1. Mumyōshō, p. 179.
2. Eiga no ittei, p. 203.
3. Shogaku yōshashō, p. 448.
4. Shoshinshō, p. 411.
5. Eiga no ittei, p. 201.
6. Go-Toba no in gokuden, p. 149.
7. Shinsen zuinō, p. 26.
8. Chōtanshō, p. 166.
9. Mumyōshō, p. 242.
10. Gojūshichigajō, p. 203.
11. Chōtanshō, p. 166.
APPENDIX 2: AESTHETIC IDEALS AND DEVICES
1. An Introduction to Japanese Court Poetry, p. 161.
2. Sairyūshō, p. 12.
3. Gumon kenchū, p. 148.
4. Sōgi jisankachū 57.
5. Rakusho roken, p. 106.
6. Reizeike waka hihikuden, p. 216.
7. Kaen rensho kikigaki, p. 73.
8. Chōtanshō, p. 199.
9. Gendai haiku, p. 44.
10. Kochiku 6.
11. Kagaku teiyō, p. 153.
12. Sangoki, p. 318.
13. Teika jittei, p. 368.
14. Sōchō hyakuban renga-awase, p. 50 (round 40).
15. Kuhyō, p. 305.
16. Kuhyō, p. 305.
17. It appears that the poem attributed to Takasuke here was actually written by Asukai Masatsune (1170–1221).
18. Shōji ninen jūgatsu tsuitachi uta-awase.
19. Kōun kuden, p. 48.
20. Shirin shūyō, p. 83.
21. Shin zōdanshū, pp. 404–15.
22. Haikai sabishiori, p. 351.
23. Yahantei tsukinami hokku awase, p. 458.
24. Go-Toba no in gokuden, p. 145.
25. Roppyaku-ban uta-awase, round 312.
26. Hitorigoto, p. 61.
27. Tsuginohara, p. 466.
28. Tsukuba mondō, pp. 81–82.
29. Sanzōshi, p. 524.
30. Oi no kobumi, p. 311.
31. Ari no mama, p. 154.
32. See Tōyashū kikigaki, p. 84. See also Shogaku yōshashō, p. 452.
33. Saigyō shōnin danshō, p. 408.
34. See, for instance, Hyakunin isshu ōeishō (no. 86), the first of the medieval commentaries on hyakunin isshu, by Fujiwara Mitsumoto.
35. Go-Toba no in gokuden, p. 145; Shunzei, Mimosusogawa uta-awase, round 7.
36. Kanshō hyakushū 77.
37. Kanshō hyakushū 56.
38. Hitorigoto, p. 61.
39. Renga entokushō, p. 102.
40. Hitorigoto, p. 61.
41. Shogaku yōshashō, p. 445.
42. Chōtanshō, p. 187.
43. Shihōshō, p. 233.
44. Jūhachi-ban hokku-awase 10.
45. Jūhachi-ban hokku-awase 10.
46. Gekimōshō, p. 69. The link is attributed to Kyūzei.
47. Kyoraishō, p. 514.
48. Seibyō senku chū, p. 234.
49. Renga shotai hidenshō, pp. 461–62.
50. Eiga no ittei, p. 207.
51. Chōtanshō, pp. 177–78.
52. Gumon kenchū, p. 154.
53. Uda no hōshi, pp. 608–9.
54. Betsuzashikijo, p. 125.
55. See Chikubun, p. 271.
56. Kyoraishō, p. 507.
57. Hatsukaishi hyōchū, pp. 474–75.
58. Guhishō, p. 293.
59. Gukenshō, p. 356.
60. Mumyōshō, p. 243.
61. Hana no magaki, p. 99.
62. Renri hishō, p. 40.
63. Shoshin kyūeishū, p. 85.
64. Ōtabon Shunmusōchū 52.
65. Aki no yo hyōgo, p. 477.
66. Uda no hōshi, p. 614.
67. Aki no yo hyōgo, p. 477.
68. Hekirenshō, p. 38.
69. Yodo no watari, p. 285.
70. Hatsukaishi hyōchū, p. 474.
71. Keikandō, p. 134.
72. Oi no kurigoto, p. 381.
73. Seiashō, p. 310.
74. Tamekane-kyō wakashō, pp. 160–61.
75. Hitorigoto, p. 96.
76. Preface to Takasunagoshū (1692).
77. Shūi gusō shōshutsu kikigaki, p. 75.
78. See Shūi gusō shōshutsu kikigaki, p. 162.
79. Teika jittei, p. 372.
80. Makura no sōshi, p. 3.
81. Hana no magaki, p. 99.
82. Eiga no ittei, p. 204.
83. Itō Kei, modern editor of the text, uses the word heimei to describe the poem.
84. Sanzōshi, p. 580.
85. Sanzōshi, p. 586.
86. Kunizane-kyō no ie no uta-awase, round 13.
87. Hirota no yashiro uta-awase 173.
88. Kuhyō, p. 299.
89. Kōun kuden, p. 58.
90. Quoted in Rakusho roken, p. 107.
91. Chikubun 634, p. 208. Most likely the author is Kenzai.
92. Mimosusogawa uta-awase 40.
93. Hirota no yashiro no uta-awase 142.
94. Seibyō senku chū, p. 296. The comments are generally regarded as close to Kenzai’s own.
95. Seibyō senku chū, p. 296. Poem no. 43 in ninth hyakuin.
96. Keikandō, p. 136.
97. Kyoraishō, p. 513.
98. Haikai sabishiori, p. 360.
99. Dassai shooku haiku jō shō, p. 23.
100. Guhishō, p. 298.
101. Kaen rensho kikigaki, p. 112. Authorship is attributed to either Rokujō Arifusa (1251–1319) or some other Nijō partisan.
102. Sangoki, p. 351. See also Imagawa Ryoshun’s Rakusho roken, pp. 95–97.
103. Sasamegoto, p. 123.
104. In Sasamegoto (p. 121) he quotes a text spuriously attributed to Teika in support of his position.
105. Chōrokubumi, pp. 83–84, and Shinonome, p. 317.
106. Renga entokushō, p. 89.
107. See kokorozuke in this appendix. Oi no kurigoto, p. 381.
108. Kyoraishō, p. 507.
109. Uda no hōshi, p. 617; Sasamegoto, p. 68.
110. Kyoraishō, p. 514.
111. Mumyōshō, p. 245.
112. Kaen rensho kikigaki, p. 117.
113. Hana no magaki, p. 93.
114. Furu no nakamichi, p. 46.
115. Shoshin kyūeishū, p. 60.
116. Renga shotai hidenshō, p. 486.
117. Inaka no ku-awase, p. 456.
118. Shin zōdanshū, p. 412.
119. Seiashō, p. 215.
120. Seiashō, p. 215.
121. Oi no susami, p. 115.
122. Chōrokubumi, p. 88.
123. Tsukeai tebikizura, p. 433.
124. Chirenshō, p. 121.
125. Yodo no watari, pp. 283–84.
126. Seibyō senku chū, p. 265.
127. Hitorigoto, p. 23.
128. Go-Toba no in gokuden, p. 147.
129. Shinkei hōin teikin, p. 393.
130. Inaka no ku-awase, p. 457.
131. Iwashimizu wakamiya no uta-awase 2.
132. Hōtoku ninen jūichigatsu sentō uta-awase, round 32, p. 281.
133. Waka kuhon, p. 32.
134. Hekirenshō, p. 39.
135. Rakusho roken, p. 98.
136. Kyoraishō, p. 437.
137. Shōtetsu monogatari, p. 172.
138. Jūronibenshō, p. 241.
139. Nennen zuihitsu, p. 364. Masaakira misquotes the second line, which should be “on anise picked by a mountain path” (yamaji no tsuyu ni).
140. Roppyaku-ban uta-awase 23.
141. Shitakusachū 7 and 8.
142. Shitakusachū 7 and 8.
143. Moto no shimizu, p. 126.
144. Mumyōshō, pp. 242–43.
145. Kindai shūka, p. 43.
146. Kōun kuden, p. 60.
147. Shōtetsu monogatari, p. 224.
148. Azuma mondō, p. 226.
149. Sasamegoto, p. 111.
150. Biwaen zuihitsu, p. 76.