Card Game of Ogura Hyakunin Isshu

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 Hyakunin-Isshu is an anthology of 100 poems by 100 different poets. It was compiled by Master Fujiwara Teika who was a famous critic and poet from the twelfth through the thirteenth centuries.This poem is called Waka or Tanka . A Waka has 31 syllables , arranged as 5,7,5,7,7.





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