Empress' Poetry Competition in the Kampyō era
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寛平御時后宮歌合 (かんぴょうのおんとききさいのみやうたあわせ)
新編国歌大観V.4
This early example of a poetry contest was held in 892, perhaps in celebration of the Empress Mother's 60th birthday. There are 193 poems in the 新編国歌大観's base text, although it was perhaps intended to be 100 rounds of two poems each. No record of the winner of each round, nor any judgments, survive. It also seems to have included old poems not composed by any of the participants. This may suggest that it was more of a proto-contest than the true type of poetry competition we associate with the genre. The contest seems to have been quite influential not only on future contests, but on the KKS and other imperial collections as well.
Spring
- Round 1: KKS 13 vs KKS 12
- Round 2: KKS 47 vs KKS 131
- Round 5: KKS 73 (variant) vs KKS 1031/GSS 8
- Round 7: KKS 60 vs SIS 75
- Round 9: KKS 15 vs KKS 110
- Round 11: KKS 11 vs KKS 14
- Round 18: KKS 46 vs (poem not in Imperial collections)
- Round 20: KKS 24 vs (poem not in Imperial collections)
右 八春の野に若菜つまむとこし我を散りかふ花に道はまどひぬ
