Minamoto no Sanetomo
In the Meiji period (1868–1912), Shiki claimed the situation with waka should be rectified, and waka should be modernized in the same way as other things in the country. He praised the style of "Man'yōshū" as manly, as opposed to the style of "Kokin Wakashū", the model for waka for a thousand years, which he denigrated and called feminine. He praised Minamoto no Sanetomo, the third "shōgun" of the Kamakura shogunate, who was a disciple of Fujiwara no Teika and composed waka in a style much like that in the "Man'yōshū".