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| | Silkworms and consorts in Nara Japan. | Asian Folklore Studies (April, 2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Because much of the poetry of the age was also composed to commemorate occasions at court, the adoption of stock poetic allusions from continental literature also required extensive familiarity with the legends and practices associated with the Chinese ritual calendar. |
 | | The corpus of tanabata poetry in the Manyoshu and Kaifuso, two collections of poetry composed during the Nara period, is surprisingly large. |
 | | Several such poems, including a well-known cycle of poems attributed to Kakinomoto Hitomaro, strongly suggest that the observance of the tanabata festival in the Japanese islands predated the Nara period (KOJIMA 1975, 2: 1120-1153, WATASE 1999, 30-49). |
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