lines borrowed from the originals; similarly, borrowed elements were to be moved within the new poem and the new poem should have a different theme), Teika also tellingly recommends certain classic works for aspiring poets to study: the Tales of Ise, Sanjurokkasen (or "Poems of the Thirty-Six Immortals") and the first two portions of The Collected Works of Po Chü-i. Portions of the Eiga taigai have been translated into English Kindai shūka (, c. 1209; "Superior Poems of Our Time"; a collection of poems Teika felt to be excellent models, with a preface dealing with his critical philosophy, sent to Sanetomo to instruct him in how his poems should emulate the great ancient Japanese poets – teaching by example. This sequence was constructed when he was 47, after the death of Shunzei, which depressed Teika, as evidenced by his writing in the Kindai shūka that he had "forgotten the color of the followers of words; the well-springs of inspiration have run dry.") Maigetsusho (, c. 1219; "Monthly Notes"; an epistle of corrections of one hundred poems, sent to a student of Teika's. Besides the corrections, it bore a preface which is a major source of information regarding Teika's view on the aesthetics of poetry; Shōtetsu states that it was sent to Minamoto no Sanetomo; Ton'a holds rather that it had been sent to the "Kinugasa Great Inner Minister", or Fujiwara no Ieyoshi.) Besides Brower's English translation, the Maigetsusho was also translated to French, Italian and Hungarian. Matsuranomiya monogatari ( "The Tale of the Matsura Palace"; an experimental novel believed to be written by Teika, though Teika's manuscript claims that he was merely copying it.) Teika hachidai sho (; Anthology of 1811 poems from the first 8 Imperial anthologies.) Shuka no daitai (; "A Basic Canon of Superior Poems") Teika Jittai (, 1207–1213; an anthology of 286 poems, chiefly derived from the Shin Kokinshū; long believed a forgery, but some modern scholars contend that it is a genuine work.) See also Shikishi Reizei family References Bundy 1990, "Poetic Apprenticeship: Fujiwara Teika's Shogaku Hyakushu" Mostow, Joshua S., ed. (1996). Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ; OCLC 58053128 Notes External links Entry at Encyclopædia Britannica Hyakunin isshu-(Public domain translation online) Brief biography of Teika and links to ~41 translated poems.