ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The Man’yōshū (, literally “Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves", Japanese pronunciation: [maɰ̃joːɕɯː]) is the oldest extant collection of Japanese waka (poetry in Classical Japanese), compiled sometime after AD 759 during the Nara period. The anthology is one of the most revered of Japan’s poetic compilations.

Detailed explanation-2: -Traditional Japanese poetry is known as waka. In Japan, poetry has often been gathered into anthologies, and the oldest known book is a 20-volume compendium of waka called Man’yōsh (or Manyoshu) printed in the seventh century. The collection includes 265 chōka, which are long poems, and 4, 207 tanka, or short poems.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Manyoshu or ‘Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves’ is an anthology of ancient Japanese poems compiled c. 759 CE during the Nara Period but including many earlier works.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Manyôshû, compiled in the seventh century, is the earliest existing anthology of poems and includes both long and short forms. The Kokinshû, compiled from the eighth to tenth centuries, was the first collection of poems of the short form, called waka (or tanka), the thirty-one syllable classical poetic form.

Detailed explanation-5: -Manyoshu ( Man’yōshū, “Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves") is the earliest existing anthology of Tanka poems, regarded as the starting point of Japanese culture and literature. The poems date from between 600 C.E. and 759 C.E., and were written by every class of person, from emperors to merchants and farmers.