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The 16 pages that link to Man'yōshū, each with the reason it gives.

• Japanese literatureBroader topic: It preserves an early and diverse body of Japanese verse.

• Nara periodRelated: Its poems offer a rich record of language, emotion, and society in the period.

• WakaRelated: Its poems preserve early waka by people across social ranks.

• Japanese poetryBroader topic: It preserves an early and wide-ranging record of Japanese poetic voices.

• TankaRelated: Its poems document the older poetic traditions from which tanka developed.

• Man'yōganaRelated: Its varied use of phonetic characters made the writing practice especially visible and gave it its name.

• KokugakuRelated: Mabuchi treated its poems as evidence of an uncorrupted ancient Japanese sensibility.

• Motoori NorinagaRelated: Norinaga studied its ancient language as evidence for Japan’s classical sensibility.

• Fujiwara no TeikaCompared with: Its archaic diction offered a poetic resource and stylistic alternative to courtly elegance.

• Shoku NihongiRelated: Read together, it offers literary evidence alongside the chronicle's political record.

• Heian literatureRelated: Heian poets inherited its Japanese verse tradition while reshaping its forms and ideals.

• Ōtomo no YakamochiRelated: Yakamochi’s poems form a substantial part of this anthology, whose compilation is traditionally attributed to him.

• Tenpyō-hōjiRelated: Its poems preserve literary culture from the broader age surrounding Tenpyō-hōji.

• TenpyōRelated: Many poems in the anthology belong to the same broad period as Tenpyō.

• Reiwa eraRelated: The government said Reiwa’s characters were drawn from a passage in this anthology.

• Nobutsuna SasakiRelated: Sasaki’s scholarship and poetic outlook drew heavily on this earliest major anthology.