Frog Story - Seiasho

Japanese: 井蛙抄 - せいあしょう

A book on waka poetry from the Northern and Southern Courts period. Six volumes. Written by Ton'a . Completed around the first or third year of the Joji era (1362-1364 ). The first five volumes quote and compile conventional theories on style, honka-dori, grammar correction, famous places with the same name, and similar poems, while volume six records anecdotes about poets and observations from the waka world. The sixth volume is independently titled " Suiaganmoku" (Frog's Eyes) , and is of great documentary value.

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Japanese:

南北朝時代の歌学書。六巻。頓阿(とんあ)著。貞治元～三年（一三六二‐六四）頃成立。巻五までは風体、本歌取り、制詞、同名名所、類歌などについて従来の説を引用・集成、巻六は歌人の逸話や歌壇の見聞を記す。六巻は独立して「水蛙眼目(すいあがんもく)」といい、資料的価値が高い。

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