1259 in poetry
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- Retired Emperor Go-SagaEmperor Go-SagaEmperor Go-Saga was the 88th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession...
orders a new imperial anthology of JapaneseJapanese poetryJapanese poets first encountered Chinese poetry during the Tang Dynasty. It took them several hundred years to digest the foreign impact, make it a part of their culture and merge it with their literary tradition in their mother tongue, and begin to develop the diversity of their native poetry. For...
wakaWaka (poetry)Waka or Yamato uta is a genre of classical Japanese verse and one of the major genres of Japanese literature...
poetry. It will be completed in 12651265 in poetry-Works published:* Fujiwara no Tameie, Fujiwara no Motoie, Fujiwara no Ieyoshi, Fujiwara no Yukiee, and Fujiwara no Mitsutoshi, editors, Shokukokin Wakashū , imperial anthology of Japanese waka; it had been ordered in 1259 by the Retired Emperor Go-Saga; consisting of twenty volumes containing...
by Fujiwara no TameieFujiwara no Tameiewas a Japanese poet and compiler of Imperial anthologies of poems.Tameie was the second son of poets Teika and Abutuni; and he was the central figure in a circle of Japanese poets after Jōkyū War in 1221. His three sons were Nijō Tameuji, Kyōgoku Tamenori and Reizei Tamesuke...
, with assistance from Fujiwara no Motoie, Fujiwara no Ieyoshi, Fujiwara no Yukiee, and Fujiwara no Mitsutoshi and titled Shokukokin Wakashū (続古今和歌集, "Collection of Ancient and Modern Times Continued"), consisting of twenty volumes containing 1,925 poems.
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- Óláfr ÞórðarsonÓláfr ÞórðarsonÓláfr Þórðarson was an Icelandic skald and scholar who was born about 1210 and died in 1259. He is usually called Óláfr hvítaskáld in contrast to a contemporary skald called Óláfr svartaskáld...
(born 12101210 in poetry-Births:* Óláfr Þórðarson , Icelandic skald* Philippe de Rémi , Old French poet and trouvère-Deaths:* Hartmann von Aue , German poet of the Middle High German period...
), Icelandic skaldSkaldThe skald was a member of a group of poets, whose courtly poetry is associated with the courts of Scandinavian and Icelandic leaders during the Viking Age, who composed and performed renditions of aspects of what we now characterise as Old Norse poetry .The most prevalent metre of skaldic poetry is... - Jehan ErartJehan ErartJehan Erart was a trouvère from Arras, particularly noted for his favouring the pastourelle genre. He has left behind eleven pastourelles, ten grand chants, and one serventois....
(born 12001200 in poetry-Births:* Jehan Erart born 1200 or 1210 , trouvère* Ulrich von Liechtenstein , German medieval nobleman, knight, politician, and Minnesänger...
), trouvèreTrouvèreTrouvère , sometimes spelled trouveur , is the Northern French form of the word trobador . It refers to poet-composers who were roughly contemporary with and influenced by the troubadours but who composed their works in the northern dialects of France...