小倉百人一首

Japanese

Examples

Poem 1 (Gosen Wakashū, book 6, poem 302 by Emperor Tenji): 秋の田のかりほの庵の苫をあらみわが衣手は露にぬれつつ aki no ta no kariho no io no toma o arami waga koromode wa tsuyu ni nuretsutsu In autumn paddies my makeshift hut is so coarsely thatched my sleeves become soaked with dew. Poem 100 (Shokugosen Wakashū, book 18, poem 1205 by former Emperor Juntoku): ももしきや古き軒端のしのぶにもなほあまりある昔なりけり momoshiki ya furuki nokiba no shinobu ni mo nao amari aru mukashi narikeri In the stone-built palace the old leaves are overgrown with Memory Fern―but ah, what a past is here still left to be remembered!

Kanji in this term
小	倉	百	人	一	首
お Grade: 1	くら > ぐら Grade: 4	ひゃく Grade: 1	にん Grade: 1	いち > いっ Grade: 1	しゅ Grade: 2
kun'yomi		goon

Etymology

From 小倉 (Ogura, a district in Kyoto) +‎ 百人一首 (hyakunin isshu, “one hundred poems by one hundred poets anthology”).

Proper noun

小(お)倉(ぐら)百(ひゃく)人(にん)一(いっ)首(しゅ) • (Ogura Hyakunin Isshu) ^{←をぐらひやくにんいつしゆ (Wogura Fyakunin Itusyu)?}

1. the famous of the “one hundred poems by one hundred poets” anthologies, compiled by Fujiwara no Teika in c. 1235, used in the basis of certain card games

   Synonyms: 小倉百首 (Ogura Hyakushu), 百人一首 (Hyakunin Isshu), 百人首 (Hyakuninshu)

See also

• 歌(うた)ガルタ (uta-garuta)
• 百(ひゃく)人(にん)秀(しゅう)歌(か) (Hyakunin Shūka)
• Appendix:Ogura Hyakunin Isshu