拾遺和歌集

Japanese

Examples

春立つといふばかりにやみ吉野の山も霞みてけさは見ゆらむ

haru tatsu to iu bakari ni ya mi-Yoshino no yama mo kasumite kesa wa miyuran

But is it because we say spring has come [lit. “stood”], that we see fair Yoshino’s mountains misting in the morning?

いかるがや富の緒川のたえばこそわが大君のみ名を忘れめ

Ikaruga ya Tominoo-gawa no taeba koso waga ōkimi no mina o wasureme

By Ikaruga’s river Tominoo drying up [lit. “breaking”], only then I will forget my great lord’s name.

From 拾遺 (shūi, “gleaning”) +‎ 和歌 (waka, “classical Japanese poem”) +‎ 集 (shū, “collection”).

拾(しゅう)遺(い)和(わ)歌(か)集(しゅう) • (Shūi Wakashū) ^{←しふゐわかしふ (Sifuwi Wakasifu)^?}

the third of the 勅撰和歌集 (chokusen wakashū, “imperial waka anthologies”), compiled in c. 1005-07 CE
Synonyms: 拾遺 (Shūi), 拾遺集 (Shūishū)

Hypernym: 八代集 (Hachidaishū)