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Emperor Meiji's Waka Poetry (unfinished)

(明治天皇 Meiji-tennōI)

(3 November 1852 – 30 July 1912)

He was an indifferent student, and later in life admitted he regretted it.

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(昭憲皇后 Shōken kōgō)

(9 May 1849 – 9 April 1914)

also known as Empress Dowager Shōken (昭憲皇太后 Shōken-kōtaigō)

A prodigy... she was able to read Waka Poetry by the time she was four... and composed some of her own by age five.

By age seven, she could read some texts in classical Chinese.