Shinkokinwakashu no hairetsu ni tai suru shuji giko no yakuwari -- utamakura, taigendome, honkadori o chushin ni

"Shinkokinwakashū", or “The New Kokinshū", is usually considered an extremely refined literary work, but the reason why is far from being just the quality of its single chosen poems. As a matter of fact, the excellence of this anthology is also given by the way the poems are organized in progression. In this dissertation, starting from a direct analysis of the poem sequences in the anthology, I tried to figure out what the motivation at the core of the compilers' choises was. In particular, I tried to clarify how famous place names (utamakura), nominal stops (taigendome) and allusive variations (honkadori) convey a very profound sense of cohesiveness to some poem sequences.