The widely-held notion that
Hyakunin isshu (“One Poem Each by One Hundred Poets,” also
Ogura hyakunin isshu) represented an anthology of
waka poems chosen by Fujiwara no Teika for their particular excellence—until then almost an axiom—was shaken in the early 1950s by the discovery of another collection of outstanding poems called
Hyakunin shūka (“Poems of Excellence by One Hundred Poets”).
Hyakunin isshu is a miniature anthology containing 100
waka poems of excellence by one hundred different poets, beginning with works by Emperor Tenji and Empress Jitō and ending with works by Go-toba and Juntoku, two retired emperors condemned to exile on remote islands after the Jōkyū Disturbance. In the work
Hyakunin shūka, by contrast, these final poems by the two retired emperors are missing, with works by the Ichijōin Empress and two others in their place for a total of 101 poems in all. Various theories have been advanced to explain this difference: one theory sees
Hyakunin shūka as likely an earlier, draft version of
Hyakunin isshu; another theory—assigning with high confidence the compilation of
Hyakunin shūka to Teika himself—ascribes the replacement and reordering of poets and poems within
Hyakunin isshu instead to Tameie, Teika's son. As such, the identity of
Hyakunin isshu's compiler remains, even today, a problem not yet unambiguously resolved.
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