ogura-hyakunin-isshu

Ogura Hyakunin Isshu (小倉百人一首) is a classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese waka by one hundred poets (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogura_Hyakunin_Isshu ). This package is a JSON structurized version of those poems and its author metadata. The pronunceation is also embedded in the JSON for easy integration with voice interfaces.

Usage

Node.js

npm install ogura-hyakunin-isshu

const hyakunin=require('ogura-hyakunin-isshu');
console.log(hyakunin[0].text.join(' '));

Structure

[
  {
    "n": 1,
    "text": ["秋の田の","かりほの庵の","苫をあらみ","我が衣手は","露にぬれつつ"],
    "ruby": ["あきのたの","かりほのいほの","とまをあらみ","わがころもでは","つゆにぬれつつ"],
    "author": {"name": "天智天皇","ruby": "てんじてんのう"}
  },
  ...
]

License

Probably they're all public domain, every author has deceased like 800 years ago or so.