| Renga poetry, a form of waka where the first and last stanzas of the poem are linked together, had been growing in popularity beginning in the Kamakura period, but in the Muromachi period it entered a golden age. |
上句と下句を連ねていく和歌である連歌は鎌倉時代から発達し、室町時代に最盛を迎える。 |