makura kotoba References makura kotoba Japanese poetic device Ask Anything Homework Help Written by The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them. The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica Britannica AI Ask Anything Learn about this topic in these articles: Japanese literature/ Origin of the tanka in the Kojiki…these songs, such as the makura kotoba (“pillow word”), a kind of fixed epithet, remained a feature of later poetry. Read More…these songs, such as the makura kotoba (“pillow word”), a kind of fixed epithet, remained a feature of later poetry. Read More
