Manyoshu

Question 1

Tanka

Answer 1

Short form poem, 5-7-5-7-7

Question 1

Uta

Answer 1

Poem

Question 2

Choka

Answer 2

Long form poem, 5-7-5-7-5-7-5-7–7-7

Question 3

Zoka

Answer 3

Miscellaneous Poems (may have meant Public Poems)

Question 4

Somon

Answer 4

Exchanges (between people) including love poems and those about interpersonal and
family relations

Question 5

Banka

Answer 5

(coffin pulling poems): “Eulogies” – poems recited during funerals. Later it was used
generally for poems about death

Question 6

What is the Manyoshu?

Answer 6

It’s a collection of 4,500 poems in 20 volumes. It was compiled during a period of great social change and is the Oldest anthology of “native” poetry in Japan

Question 7

What structure of the Manyoshu?

Answer 7

Discovery, consolidation, maturity- same as the Kojiki and Nikon Shoki

Question 8

Who is Lady Nukuta?

Answer 8

A descendent of a previous emperor. Many of her poems attributed to Empress Saimei, indicating that she composed poems on the empress’ behalf.

Question 9

Who is Kakinomoto no Hitomaro?

Answer 9

He served as a low-ranking courtier; his earliest datable poem is from 689. He was master of the chōka. Hitomaro’s verse is often divided into two categories: public and private poetry. He was considered the God of Poetry

Question 10

Which God is considered to have written the first Tanka

Answer 10

Susano’o as recorded in Kojiki.

Question 11

Waka

Answer 11

Song

Question 12

Where is Waka from?

Answer 12

Kanshi