Kuhin waka
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九品和歌(くひんわか)
新編国歌大観V.229, 日本歌学大系1
A small collection of 18 poems divided into 9 ranks, compiled by Fujiwara no Kinto around 1009. The rankings were repeated in a number of later treatises.
- Top of top
- Middle of top
- Bottom of top
- The feeling (kokoro) is not deep but it has interesting parts. KKS 53
- Top of middle
- Middle of middle
- Not having any excellent points, or any bad points, but simply how things are. KKS 11
- Bottom of middle
- Top of bottom
- Middle of bottom
- Bottom of bottom