Japanese Quail (Uzura) and other materials for Shunzei, Saigyō and Shikishi

 Japanese quail sounds

Poem 280 (Shunzei)

Sakaki (sacred evergreen in Shintō)

Ama no kaguyama with rice paddies in foreground

Saigyō's hut (recreation) in Mt. Yoshino

Poem 297 Saigyō: Japanese snipe (shigi)

Japanese snipe flying

Poem 298 (Saigyō): Japanese deer (shika) - stag

The call of a Japanese stag deer: will help understand the poem

Poem 299 Saigyō: cricket (kirigirisu)

In a woodblock print

Poem 321 Saigyō: Japanese plover (chidori)

The Gossamer Journal: some images

 The mayfly (kagerō)

Kagerō also refers to heat haze (shimmer produced by heat)

Kagerō also refers to gossamer fabric worn under a silk kimono

Here is an image made of The Gossamer Lady centuries after she lived (so it's imagined), showing her playing a drum with an image of her journal in the upper right

Kokinshů: Some Images

 Mountain thrush (uguisu)

Uguisu singing

Plum blossoms (ume no hana)

Snow on plum blossoms

And a Japanese print from the 19th c. 

Cherry blossoms (sakura no hana)

Cherry blossoms time lapse

Falling cherry blossoms

Japanese nightingale (hototogisu), aka "lesser cuckoo"

Hototogisu singing

Kokinshu

One of the significant aspects of the Kokinshů is that it is organized into 20 "books" in an order that was maintained in other Imperial anthologies. The "Table of Contents," as it were, can be found in this Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokin_Wakash%C5%AB