一首
Meanings
Noun
1. one tanka; one poem
Kanji used
Pitch accent
いっしゅ
Used in vocabulary
百人一首
(Ogura) Hyakunin Isshu; classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese waka by one hundred poets; hyakunin isshu karuta; hyakunin isshu poetry cards; deck of 200 cards, the 100 waka of the Hyakunin Isshu split between them, to be matched together during the game
Noun
Examples1
富士山
After climbing Mt. Fuji, I got the inspiration for a poem.