Historical Evidence of Collaborative Poetry
Examples of collaborative poetry abound in Japanese poetry. Though the precise accounts and records of such events are either lost or missing, there are significant proofs that speak of poetry as a Japanese cultural phenomena. Japanese poetry, particularly in the development of waka, was greatly influenced by the popular rituals of aristocrats, whose devotion to poetry helped increase the value and worth of poetry.
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