TOKYO--Over a year ago, GameSpot reported that former Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi and the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu Project Foundation were building a museum dedicated to classic Japanese poetry.
insider.si.edu: Hyakunin isshu shōsei shō / [Komogaki Makuzu sen ; Ichiryūsai Hiroshige hitsu]
Hyakunin isshu shōsei shō / [Komogaki Makuzu sen ; Ichiryūsai Hiroshige hitsu]
Compiled about 800 years ago, Hyakunin Isshu includes one excellent poem from each of 100 poets, who used just 31 syllables to express a wide range of emotions keyed to the passing seasons.
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