Waka Poetry in Japan - The New Manyoshu

Early competitions were happening with waka in japan instead of chinese style kanshi. We have records of three of these early competitions, the sa minbun ko no i no uta asse from the mid eght eighties. These two contests were actually translated into literary chinese by another great poet of this time - suga warano mici sane. And it's a real marker of how far waka had come in the public esteem that in the fifth year of the engi era, nine o, five c e.