Tsukubashū (菟玖波集, "The Tsukuba Anthology", compiled c. 1356) was the first imperial anthology of renga.[1] The collection was compiled by Nijō Yoshimoto. Provincial lord Sasaki Takauji played an active role in its production with 81 of his poems appearing in the final version.[1] In addition to courtly renga, the anthology contains, in Book 19, the earliest known collection of haikai no renga.[2]
Title
The title of the work refers to Tsukuba, a location in the east Japan at which, according to the Kojiki, Yamato Takeru and an elderly interlocutor composed a two-part poem together, this story being where practitioners of renga traced their tradition's origins.
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