1,500th Poetry Contest - Sengohyakuban Utaawase

Japanese: 千五百番歌合 - せんごひゃくばんうたあわせ
1,500th Poetry Contest - Sengohyakuban Utaawase

This is the largest of all poetry contests. It was completed between the end of 1202 (Kennin 2) and the beginning of the following year. In 1201, Emperor Gotoba ordered 100 poems (20 spring, 15 summer, 20 autumn, 15 winter, 5 celebration, 15 love, and 10 miscellaneous) to be submitted by 30 representative poets from the Shin Kokin period, and arranged in a poetry contest in pairs, one on each side. The judges were Tadayoshi (Spring 1, 2), Shunzei (Spring 3, 4), Michichika (Summer 1, 2; died during the course of the series), Yoshitsune (Summer 3, Autumn 1), Gotoba-in (Autumn 2, 3), Teika (Autumn 4, Winter 1), Suetsune (Winter 2, 3), Moromitsu (Iwai 1, Love 1), Kensho (Love 2, 3), and Jien (Miscellaneous 1, 2). As they were made up of core members of the poetry circle centered around Gotoba-in, they account for the most number of poems (90) included in the Shin Kokin Wakashu, and are noted for supporting the Shin Kokin style, which is innovative and symbolic of a fantasy world. The judgments are also diverse (Emperor Gotoba and Jien judged poems, while Ryokei judged poetry), and the unique judgments of each judge are valuable materials for learning about the consciousness of poetry criticism at the time of the Shin Kokin Senshu.

[Tamotsu Ariyoshi]

"Japanese Classical Literature Series 74: Poetry Contest Collection" (1965, Iwanami Shoten)""Ariyoshi Tamotsu, 'The 1,500 Poetry Contests: A Critical Edition and Its Research' (1968, Kazama Shobo)"

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Japanese:

歌合中最大のもの。1202年(建仁2)末から翌年初めにかけて完成。新古今時代の代表的歌人30人から、1201年に後鳥羽(ごとば)院の命により百首(春20、夏15、秋20、冬15、祝5、恋15、雑10首)を召し、左右一組とする歌合形式に番(つが)えたもの。判者は、忠良(ただよし)(春1、2)、俊成(しゅんぜい)(春3、4)、通親(みちちか)(夏1、2。途中で没す)、良経(よしつね)(夏3、秋1)、後鳥羽院(秋2、3)、定家(ていか)(秋4、冬1)、季経(すえつね)(冬2、3)、師光(もろみつ)(祝1、恋1)、顕昭(けんしょう)(恋2、3)、慈円(じえん)(雑1、2)の10人。後鳥羽院を中心とした歌壇の中核メンバーで構成されているため、『新古今和歌集』入集歌第一位(90首)を占め、斬新(ざんしん)で象徴的な幻想世界の新古今調を支えるものとして注目される。判詞も多彩多様(後鳥羽院と慈円は判歌、良経は判詩)であり、各判者の個性的な判詞は新古今撰集(せんしゅう)当時の歌評意識を知る貴重な資料である。

[有吉 保]

『『日本古典文学大系74 歌合集』(1965・岩波書店)』『有吉保著『千五百番歌合の校本とその研究』(1968・風間書房)』

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