Hyakunin Isshu (百人一首) is a classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese waka by one hundred poets. The most famous and standard version was compiled by Fujiwara no Teika.

Ogura shikishi

Translations edit

See Hyakunin Isshū for a list of published English translations
  • Hyak Nin Is'shiu, or Stanzas by a Century of Poets (1866), by F. V. Dickins (external scan)
    edition with: annotated English translations, Appendix, Index, Errata, catalogue of titles, table of characters; Japanese text (vertical, from back)
  • Hyaku-Nin-Isshu, or Stanzas by a Century of Poets (1892), by F. V. Dickins (external scan)
    new edition with all notes and end matter removed; Japanese text reformatted to run horizontally
  • “Hyakunin-Isshu (Single Songs of a Hundred Poets),” TASJ, 27(4), 1–152 (1899), by Clay MacCauley
  • Hyaku Nin Isshu in English” (1907), by Yone Noguchi
    English translations, numbered
  • A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (1909), by William Ninnis Porter
    English translations, romanized transcriptions, illustrations, and notes following each translation

Individual poems edit

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See also edit