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Japanese: 類題集 - るいだいしゅう

A type of poetry collection or haiku anthology. It is a type of private anthology of waka poems, in which poems are classified by subject, and haiku anthologies of similar themes were also compiled in imitation of this. The oldest anthology of poems known today is the Kokin Waka Rokujo from the late 10th century, which classifies approximately 4,500 poems from the Man'yoshu, Kokinshu, Gosenshu, and other collections into 25 categories and 516 themes: celestial phenomena, earthly phenomena, human affairs, and plants, insects, trees, and birds. A famous anthology of similar themes for famous places is the Ruiji Meisho Wakashu (1617) edited by Satomura Shotaku. The one with the largest number of poems is Meisho Yoshiori.

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Japanese:

歌集，俳諧発句集の一種。和歌を題材別に分類して編集した私撰歌集の一種で，これを模倣して俳諧の類題発句集も編集された。歌集では，今日知られる最古のものは10世紀後半の《古今和歌六帖》で，《万葉集》《古今集》《後撰集》などの約4500首の歌を天象，地儀，人事，草虫木鳥の25項目，516題に分類する。名所別の類題集では里村昌琢編の《類字名所和歌集》(1617)が有名である。収載歌数の多いものでは《名所栞（めいしよしおり）》。

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