The Shin-kokin-wakashu (新古今和歌集), also abbreviated Shinkokinshu, is a collection of Japanese waka poetry published in 1205. Its name means literally "New Collection of Ancient and Modern Waka," and it was meant to be seen as a successor to the Kokin-wakashu or "Collection of Ancient and Modern Waka." Notable contributors include Saigyo.
He lived alone for long periods in his life in Saga, Mt. Koya, Mt. Yoshino, Ise, and many other places, but he is more known for the many long, poetic journeys to he took to Northern Honshu that would later inspire Basho in his Narrow Road to the Deep Interior.
Some main collections of Saigyō's work are in the Sankashu, Shinkokinshu, and Shikashu.
He died in Hirokawa Temple, Kawachi, Osaka, at age 72.
Shinkokin Wakashu (informally, Shinkokinshu) is an anthology of nearly 2,000 Japanese poems (uta, or waka), all in the same standard prosodic form, 31 syllables in five measures.
The typology of the twenty books of Shinkokinshu was sufficient to encompass the entire range of topics considered suitable, as of the late 12th century, for the composition of court poetry, and thus gives a rough overview of how the world of poetic experience was delimited and partitioned at the time.
Especially significant for appreciating the changes in the topography of decorum which the editors of Shinkokinshu seemed intent on demarcating is the resulting exclusion of haikai (discordant or dissonant poems), which were included among poems of variant prosody in Kokinshu.
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