Man'yōshū (万葉集 man'yōshū, "Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves") is 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
today widely believed to be Ōtomo no Yakamochi, although numerous other theories have been proposed. The collection contains poems ranging from AD 347 (poems #85-89)[1] through 759 (#4516),[2] the bulk of them representing the period after 600. The precise significance of the title is not known with certainty.
In addition to its artistic merits, the Man'yōshū is important for using one of the earliest Japanese writing systems, the cumbersome man'yōgana.
The Man'yōshū has been accepted in the Japanese Translation
Series of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO).[6]
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