Kokin waka rokujō

古今和歌和歌六帖（こきんわかろくじょう）

新編国歌大観　II.4, 和歌文学大系 45-46

This is a large collection of poems divided into 517 categories, perhaps intended to serve as a dictionary or handbook for poets. Roughly a quarter of the poems are from the Man'yōshū, and many others appear in the first three Imperial collections (especially the KKS and GSS). It was perhaps compiled in the latter half of the 10th century, but the compiler or compilers are unknown, and its relationship to the Imperial collections and other private collections is also debated. The Shinpen kokka taikan version contains 4494 poems with 5 additional poems from alternate texts.

Volume 1

Spring (春)

• Start of Spring (春たつ日): KKS 1, KKS 2, KKS 12
• The first month (睦月): KKS 11, KKS 18, KKS 10
• Lingering snow (残りの雪): KKS 9, KKS 6, KKS 13, KKS 14
• Spring Wind (春の風): KKS 13

Weather (天)

• Rain (雨): KKS 20

Volume 2

• Mountain Village (山里): KKS 15

Volume 6

Birds

• Warbler (鶯): KKS 6, KKS 13, KKS 14, KKS 4, KKS 5