ajari

Updated: August 18, 2026

This marked the commencement of a vigorous revival of Japanese literature in the Bakufu capital. Moreover, in Osaka a scholar named Keichu Ajari published striking annotations of the celebrated anthologies, the Manyo-shu and the Kokin-shu, which attracted the admiration of Tokugawa Mitsukuni, baron of Mito. He invited Keichu to his castle and treated him with marked consideration.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era