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Airs of the States
Airs of the States (国风, guofeng) is the first and largest section of the Classic of Poetry, China's oldest anthology, containing 160 poems from 15 Zhou states.
Ballad of the East Gate
Ballad of the East Gate (Dongmen xing, 东门行) is an anonymous Han-dynasty yuefu ballad about a poor man who resolves on a desperate course despite his wife's pleas.
Chuzhou West Stream
Chuzhou West Stream (滁州西涧) is a famous Tang dynasty landscape quatrain by the poet Wei Yingwu, written while serving as prefect of Chuzhou in present-day Anhui province.
Cold Food
Cold Food (寒食) is a Tang dynasty seven-character quatrain by Han Hong, poem 78 of the Three Hundred Tang Poems, depicting the Cold Food festival in Chang'an.
Dunhuang quzi ci
Dunhuang quzi ci (敦煌曲子詞) are a corpus of Chinese song lyrics preserved in Tang, Five Dynasties, and early Song manuscripts from the Mogao Grottoes library cave, precursors of Song ci.
Farewell to a Friend
Farewell to a Friend (《送友人》, Song Youren) is an eight-line farewell poem in five-character regulated verse by the Tang poet Li Bai, known for expressing parting through landscape imagery.
Fields and gardens poetry
Fields and gardens poetry (田园诗, tianyuan shi) is a classical Chinese genre whose subject is rural scenery and farm life, founded by the Eastern Jin poet Tao Yuanming.
Gozan literature
Gozan literature (五山文学, Gozan bungaku) is the Chinese-language poetry and prose written by Zen monks of Japan's Kyoto and Kamakura Five Mountains temples, chiefly from the late 13th to the 17th centuries.
Hanshan
Hanshan (寒山, Cold Mountain) is the name attached to about 300 plain, colloquial Chinese poems, attributed to a Tang dynasty hermit of the Tiantai mountains in Zhejiang.
High Tang poetry
High Tang poetry (Shengtang shi) is the poetry of the High Tang period of the Tang dynasty, conventionally dated 713–765 and renowned as the golden age of Chinese poetry.
Iroha (いろは)
Iroha (いろは, iroha uta) is a Heian-period Japanese pangram poem using all 47 kana once each, traditionally attributed to Kūkai but actually composed late 10th to mid-11th century; its iroha order was Japan's standard kana ordering until Meiji.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki
Izumi Shikibu Nikki (和泉式部日記, The Diary of Izumi Shikibu) is a Heian-period Japanese prose work with waka poems recounting the love affair of poet Izumi Shikibu and Prince Atsumichi around 1003.
Jian'an poetry
Jian'an poetry (建安诗歌) is Chinese poetry of the Jian'an era (196–220), centered on Cao Cao's court at Ye and counted among China's literary golden ages.
Kana Preface
The Kana Preface (仮名序, Kanajo) is the preface in kana at the head of the Kokin Wakashū, the 905 imperial waka anthology, attributed to Ki no Tsurayuki.
Kanshi (poetry)
Kanshi (漢詩), or Japanese kanshi, is Japanese poetry written in classical Chinese, composed from the seventh century until the early twentieth century, distinct from waka and haiku.
Landscape poetry (shanshui)
Landscape poetry (山水詩, shanshui shi) is a genre of classical Chinese verse on natural mountains and waters, founded by Xie Lingyun in the fifth century.
Landscape-pastoral poetry
Landscape-pastoral poetry (山水田园诗, shanshui tianyuan shi) is a genre of classical Chinese poetry depicting natural scenery and rural life, peaking in the High Tang with Wang Wei and Meng Haoran.
Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den (施氏食狮史)
Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den (施氏食狮史, Shī Shì shí shī shǐ) is a Classical Chinese homophonic text by linguist Yuen Ren Chao, every syllable read shi in Mandarin; drafted by Hu Mingfu in 1916, revised in the 1950s, and printed in Britannica in 1960.
Matsuo Bashō
Matsuo Bashō (松尾芭蕉) was a Japanese poet who elevated the Edo-period genre of haikai into serious art, establishing the Bashō style and laying groundwork for haiku.
Modernist poetry (Xiandai school)
Modernist poetry (Xiandai pai, 现代派) is a school of Chinese new poetry formed in Shanghai in the early 1930s around the magazine Xiandai, led by Dai Wangshu.
Na no hana ya
"Na no hana ya" (菜の花や) is one of the most famous haiku by the Japanese poet and painter Yosa Buson, composed in 1774 at Mount Maya near Kobe.
Nine Songs
The Nine Songs (九歌) is a set of eleven sacrificial hymns in the Chu Ci of ancient Chu, traditionally attributed to the Warring States poet Qu Yuan.
Palace-style poetry
Palace-style poetry (宮體詩, gongti shi) is a sensuous style of Chinese verse from the Liang dynasty court, centered on women's feelings and appearance and associated with the future Emperor Jianwen.
Poems of Tao Yuanming
The Poems of Tao Yuanming are the roughly 125 surviving poems of the Eastern Jin recluse poet Tao Qian (ca. 365–427), known for their plain, natural style.
Poetry Revolution
The Poetry Revolution (詩界革命) was a reform movement in late Qing China, launched around 1899 by Liang Qichao to fill classical poetic forms with new ideas.
Qian Chibi Fu
Qian Chibi Fu (前赤壁赋), the Former Ode on the Red Cliff, is a prose-poem written by the Song writer Su Shi in 1082 during his exile at Huangzhou.
Sanjūrokkasen
Sanjūrokkasen (三十六歌仙, the Thirty-Six Poetry Immortals) is the name for 36 master waka poets selected by the mid-Heian nobleman Fujiwara no Kintō, including Ono no Komachi and Ki no Tsurayuki.
Shiyi Shi Shihua
Shiyi Shi Shihua (石遗室诗话, "Poetry Talks from the Shiyi Studio") is a work of classical Chinese poetry criticism by Chen Yan, leader of the Tongguang school.
Six Dynasties poetry
Six Dynasties poetry (六朝詩) is the Chinese verse written from roughly 220 to 589 CE, during the centuries of division between the Han and Sui dynasties.
Song of Weicheng
Song of Weicheng, also known as Song Yuan Er shi Anxi, is a four-line Tang dynasty quatrain by Wang Wei, written as a farewell to a friend departing for the Anxi Protectorate.