# "The Ogura Hyakunin Issyu"

What is "The Ogura Hyakunin Issyu"?
--- It is a collection of old Japanese poems, selected by Fujiwara-no-Teika. "Ogura Hyakunin Issyu" contains poems of hundread poets, one per poest. "Hyakunin" means "hundread people", and "Issyu" means "a poem". "Ogura" is a name of place where Fujiwara-no-Teika selected this poem collection.

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The followings are the first five poems.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

For the meaning of these poems (in English), for example, refer to the http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/index/, Japanese Text Initiative at University Virginia and University Pittsburgh.

by Hirotsugu Kakugawa