Kakinomoto_no_Ason_Hitomaro_Kashū
Kakinomoto no Ason Hitomaro Kashū
Japanese poem collection
The Kakinomoto no Ason Hitomaro Kashū (柿本朝臣人麿歌集, "Collection of Poems/Songs by Kakinomoto no Ason Hitomaro") or Hitomaro Kashū (人麿歌集) is a lost collection of waka poems that served as a source for the compilers of the Man'yōshū. There is some disagreement among scholars as to which poems included in the surviving Man'yōshū originally came from the Hitomaro Kashū, but it is between 364 and 370. Scholars have speculated on the nature of the original Hitomaro Kashū based on the surviving fragmentary and disjointed evidence.