The Hyakunin Isshu comprises of 100 waka poems selected by the eminent Fujiwara no Teika (who also composed poem 97). To help viewers find the poems they want, I have sorted the poems in three ways:
- By historical order
- By poem topic
- By kimari-ji syllables, grouped by first syllable
- By kimari-ji syllables, grouped by “color”.
There’s also a very good list (mostly Japanese with some English) that can be consulted here.
Enjoy!
The Hyakunin Isshu 
Your link for Poem 20 is not currently working. Could you fix it, please? PS. I love this blog and all the poems 🙂
Oops good catch. Ive corrected that.
The link for poem 52 doesn’t work. Could you fix it, please?
Thanks for sharing those poems.
Hello and thank you for the update. I have fixed the link. Please let me know if run into other problems. Thanks!
Would you please be so kind as to write the names of the authors next to the poem? It would make it much simpler to navigate. As a student, I see this blog as a goldmine, I’m very grateful!
That’s a good idea, thank you. I will try to update soon.
I love this site, I visit it often. Thank you so much for the efforts. I hope I can remember all the poems one day.
Live long and prosper!
Indexing the English translation by topic could be helpful in retrieving a poem for purpose of quotation and boasting.
Am looking for a poem/haiku on the topic of’ The advancing New Year’.I once read it on a calendar. It was about this:
‘Yet another New Year approaching.
I have been witnessing fools repeating their mistakes for some times during the days of my long life.
When will they ever learn?’
It quoted ? Issa ? or ?Isshu?
FunFact : In German ,Is so’ is an abbrevation for , Das ist so!’ meaning ‘ It is just like that( and has proven to remain that way, underlining the permanence or unquestionability of a fact/ circumstance/ position/ opinion…
‘Another New Year is approaching
Been witnessing people repeating mistakes for long
Wondering: will they ever learn?
Issho.
Now add a pint and you’re getting (to) my point.
Cheers and: Peaceful, happy, healthy whole year long 2025 2Uall!