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The 20 pages that link to Kokin Wakashū, each with the reason it gives.

• WakaRelated: Its preface and poems established standards for courtly waka.

• TankaRelated: Its courtly style helped shape the conventions later associated with tanka.

• HiraganaRelated: Its poems exemplify the literary culture in which kana writing flourished.

• Fujiwara no TeikaRelated: Its elegant court style became a major precedent for Teika’s poetic ideals.

• Ki no TsurayukiRelated: Tsurayuki was one of its four compilers and wrote its influential preface in Japanese.

• Sei ShōnagonRelated: Its courtly poetry and aesthetic ideals help explain the taste surrounding Shōnagon.

• Bai JuyiRelated: Its poetic culture developed in a court world deeply familiar with Bai Juyi’s Chinese verse.

• Fujiwara no ShunzeiRelated: Its poems and poetics formed a major standard in Shunzei’s critical judgments.

• Ōtomo no YakamochiRelated: Its later courtly tradition contrasts with the older and more varied poetry Yakamochi’s anthology preserves.

• KimigayoRelated: The poem later used for Kimigayo first appears in this imperial poetry anthology.

• Ono no KomachiRelated: It preserves several poems attributed to Komachi and shaped her literary standing.

• Ōshikōchi no MitsuneRelated: The anthology’s poems and editorial framework preserve Mitsune’s role as poet and compiler.

• TenryakuRelated: Its courtly poetic tradition continued into Murakami’s era.

• Ariwara no NarihiraRelated: It preserves poems attributed to Narihira and helped shape later judgments of his verse.

• Nobutsuna SasakiRelated: Its poetics illuminate the classical tradition Sasaki examined and transmitted.