Uta-awase (歌合 or 歌合せ, sometimes romanized utaawase), poetry contests or waka matches, are a distinctive feature of the Japanese literary landscape from the Heian period.

Tōhokuin shokunin utaawase emaki: Emaki de la "Competición de poesía de 32 personas de diferentes ocupaciones", 1494. Museo Nacional de Tokio. Un utaawase (歌合, ''?) era un concurso de poesía japonesa waka en donde dos grupos de poetas competían recitando sus poesías, con el fin de lograr méritos personales ante la Corte Imperial.

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The Mushi no Utaawase Emaki is a 1722 cm long scroll consisting of 15 panels of text and color paintings. "Mushi" means insects in Japanese language. "Utaawase" is literally "poem match", a kind of competition in which pairs of poems composed by two teams on assigned themes are judged on the basis of their literary merit.

Uta-awase is a contest in which two teams of poets divided into the right and the left sides. Poets in each team create poems, which are compared every match and see whose work is better. A judge is called Hanja and his statement is called Hanji.

The Mushi no Utaawase Emaki is a 1722 cm long scroll consisting of 15 panels of text and color paintings. "Mushi" means insects in Japanese language. "Utaawase" is literally "poem match", a kind of competition in which pairs of poems composed by two teams on assigned themes are judged on the basis of their literary merit.

Title: The Genji Poetry Match (Genji monogatari uta-awase emaki) Artist: Unidentified artist. Period: Muromachi period (1392–1573) Date: first half of the 16th century. Culture: Japan. Medium: Handscroll; ink on paper with touches of red color. Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: Lent by John C. Weber Collection.

Taniyania Shigeru, co-editor and annotator of the Chūsei-hen of this volume, states that there are over 400 utaawase from the period 1107–1242, of which about no arc extant in complete form (p. 285).

Log in with your Cambridge Core account or society details. An anthology of traditional Japanese poetry competitions. Uta-awase 913–1815. Compiled and translated by Setsuko Ito. (Chinathemen, Band 57.) pp. ix, 430, illus. Bochum, Brockmeyer, 1991. DM 54.80. - …

Uta-awase (歌合 or 歌合せ, sometimes romanized utaawase), poetry contests or waka matches, are a distinctive feature of the Japanese literary landscape from the Heian period.