Kojijū-shū
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The earliest form of the Kojijū-shū, the personal anthology of the twelfth-century waka poet Kojijū, was compiled by the poet herself around 1181 for submission to a collection of personal anthologies.[1] Later editors then created different sets of poems based on this earlier text.[2] For more details, see #Contents below.
Contents
There are four versions of the text in the surviving manuscripts, which are referred to as kō, otsu, hei and tei (甲乙丙丁).[1]
The kō text, the earliest, was probably compiled by Kojijū herself in the summer or autumn of 1181, in response to a request from Kamo no Shigeyasu (賀茂重保).[1] It is composed of two sections on "the seasons and love" and "various topics",[1] consisting of 118 poems and 69 poems respectively.[1]
The otsu text was then created because of Shigeyasu's request for collections of 100 original poems,[1] and consists of 40 poems on the seasons, 20 on love, and 60 on various topics,[1] a total of 120, 100 of which were composed by Kojijū herself.[1] It is one of the Juei Hyakushu Kashū (寿永百首家集).[1]
While the seasonal and love poems were all composed on a set topic, most (50) of the poems in the "various topics" section are accompanied by headnotes that reminisce about the circumstances of their composition with little concern for their primary themes,[3] although they are largely in the form of poems sent as gifts to lovers.[2] These 50 poems are all common to both the kō and otsu texts.[2]
The hei text was created when a later editor took 33 poems that had been included in imperial anthologies and appended them to the otsu text.[2]
The tei text consists of poems that had been removed from the kō text to create the otsu text.[2] It consists of 69 poems, but the text is damaged and incomplete.[2]
