What is Man'yōshū?
{{italic title}} [[File:Genryaku_Manyosyu.JPG|thumb|A page from the Man'yōshū]] The '''''Man'yōshū''''' ({{Lang-ja|万葉集}}) is the oldest extant collection of [[Japan|Japanese]] [[waka]] (poetry in Classical Japanese), compiled sometime after AD&nbsp;759 (during the [[Nara period]]). {{Japan-stub}} {{Authority control}} [[Category:Japanese poetry]] [[Category:8th-century works]]