04
/
The Feminine Canon
12 of 24
Women wrote two of every three verses
Female authorship across the imperial waka anthologies, 905 – 1205
0%
25%
50%
75%
68%
57%
56%
38%
27%
古今集
拾遺集
後拾遺集
千載集
新古今集
c. 905
c. 996
c. 1006
c. 1187
c. 1205
Heian kana peak
Insei transition
墨の跡金の塵とて散りゆけば言の葉ごとに思ひ残して
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