2015 Volume 64 Issue 7 Pages 36-45
Chokusen-meisho-waka-shoshutsu is a collection of poetical words edited by Sōseki in 1506. Interestingly enough, words in this glossary are listed in Japanese syllabic order instead of being geographically classified. This peculiar arrangement may have occurred in the process of rewriting its original text Chokusen-meisho-waka-yōshō because it is very likely that the editor-poet then came to know Jūyondai-shū-utamakura, another glossary which also arranged words in the same method. This article will examine the effect of intertextuality on the making of Chokusen-meisho-waka-shoshutsu.
