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Compilation of the Man'yōshū

Type Event Region Japan Time 759

Around 759 CE, the Man'yōshū was finalized, collecting some 4,500 waka poems from the 4th century to 759 by emperors, nobles, soldiers, and farmers, …

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  1. 401–759Japanese archipelago · JapanNobles and literati across generations gathered waka poems, supplemented and compiled by many hands, covering love elegies, laments, travel songs, and folk ballads, reflecting society and emotional life from the Asuka to the Nara period.
  2. 759Heijō-kyō · JapanThe twenty-volume Man'yōshū was finalized, recording waka in phonetic Chinese characters and man'yōgana, becoming the first large-scale poetry anthology in Japanese literary history and marking the peak of Nara-period literary achievement.

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