A few months ago, I was trying to find out the reading of some kanji from a poem in the Man'yoshu. I wasn't trying to read it in man'yogana but still, some of the place names can get like woah, and I mean come on Hitomaro, himugashi?
But anyway, through my highly scientific process of google.jp-ing "万葉集" I came across this website.
It's called 本日の万葉集, or Today's Man'yoshu. All it does is drop a single poem from the Man'yoshu (of which there are nearly 5000) in your inbox every day. Gives you the author, the book/poem number, and the poem itself. That's it.
WHICH IS AWESOME
It doesn't discriminate by sending you only the waka. I've definitely gotten some choka (the choka are really good! I think!) though no out and out Chinese yet.
It recommends that you sign up using a Japanese cell-phone e-mail address, and I did have some trouble with my plain old computer email BUT it works fine now and every morning I get a fresh-brewed pot of classical Japanese (also coffee) before heading off to whatever class (French 101).
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Thank you for the link :)
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