Hōraku waka is generally understood as “waka (thirty-one-syllable poems, literally “Japanese songs”) offered to kami (deities) and hotoke (buddhas) for hōraku (the benefits of the Buddhist Dharma)” according to the Nihon kokugo daijiten (Comprehensive Dictionary of the Japanese Language). However, its original concept was more specific than that. It originally referred to poems offered exclusively to deities.
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- Fukatsu Mutsuo
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- 2016
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