The Analysis of the Rhetorical Device - Pun in the Ogura Anthology of One Hundred Tanka-poems

摘要

Pun is one of the most important rhetorical devices in Japanese Waka, which not only plays a significant role in creating the poetic conceptualization of implicitness and obscurity, but also is closely related to the Japanese daily thinking mode. "The Ogura Anthology of One Hundred Tanka-poems" is an influential Waka Shu in Japanese history, where the pun from the type, quantity, gender, class shows the significant characteristics of age and the characteristics of the poems themselves.