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Noun
1. Man'yōshū (8th century anthology of Japanese poetry)
Wikipedia definition
2. Man'yōshūis the oldest existing collection of Japanese poetry, compiled some time after 759 AD during the Nara period. The anthology is one of the most revered of Japan's poetic compilations. The compiler, or the last in a series of compilers, is believed to be Ōtomo no Yakamochi. The collection contains poems ranging from AD 347 (poems #85-89) through 759 (#4516), the bulk of them representing the period after 600. The precise significance of the title is not known with certainty.
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Other forms
萬葉集 【まんようしゅう】

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