WEBThe Man'yōshū (万葉集, pronounced [maɰ̃joꜜːɕɯː]; literally "Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves") [a] [1] is the oldest extant collection of Japanese waka (poetry in Classical Japanese ), [b] compiled sometime after AD 759 during the Nara period. The anthology is one of the most revered of Japan's poetic compilations.