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*''Other Names'': 古今和歌集 ''(kokin wakashuu)''
*''Japanese'': 古今集 ''(kokinshuu)''

The ''Kokinshû'' or ''Kokin wakashû'' ("Collection of [[Waka]] of Past and Present") is an Imperially-commissioned collection of ''waka'' poems compiled in [[905]]. It is among the most famous works of Japanese literature, and along with the ''[[Manyoshu|Man'yôshû]]'', ''[[Hyakunin isshu]]'', and ''[[Tale of Genji]]'' is easily among the most quoted and referenced sources of poetry down through the entire Japanese poetic tradition.

It was followed by twenty other ''chokusen-shû'', Imperially selected compilations of the best poems of the age.<ref>[[Eiko Ikegami]], ''Bonds of Civility'', Cambridge University Press (2005), 83.</ref>

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