Redistributable Anthology of Haiku or Tanka in Electronic Form


I think a graded anthology of haiku or tanka might make an excellent
chrestomathy for learning kanji and japanese.

Are there any appropriately-licensed (e.g. creative commons / public domain)
haiku or tanka anthologies in electronic form that could be used as the basis
for this?

**EDIT** : (in response to sawa's comments, I've added "and tanka" to this
question.




One such resource for haiku is [Wikisource's collection of Matsuo Basho's
Haiku](http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Complete_Basho_Haiku_in_Japanese). There
are also quite a few [pre-modern poetry
anthologies](http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/texts/chronology_hor-
premodern.html) transcribed at the [University of Virginia's Japanese Text
Initiative](http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/hyakunin/hyakua.html),
including a transcription of the [Ogura Hyakunin
Isshu](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyakunin_Isshu) (a collection of 100 waka
poems by 100 different authors).

The original Japanese poetry is all in the public domain and as such should be
redistributable without any issue; any translations, however, are likely under
copyright and more restrictive licenses than you will find desirable.

The University of Virginia also has a selection of [modern
selections](http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/texts/chronology_hor-
modern.html) with which you may need to exercise more care, as some of them
may still be under copyright.

