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The Buke Uta-awase (武家歌合 "Warriors' Poetry Contest") was an uta-awase that took place in the Muromachi period. Participating poets included and Ninagawa Chikataka (蜷川親孝), but it is unknown who judged the contest. It probably took place at the end of 文亀 or the beginning or 永正 (1503–1505). The contest had ten set topics:
 * 原上霞 (mist over the plain)
 * 遠帰雁 (the wild goose's long journey home)
 * 庵春雨 (spring rains at a hermit's cabin)
 * 月前花
 * 鳥款冬
 * 待空恋
 * 難忘恋 (love that is difficult to overcome)
 * 増恨恋
 * 古渡船
 * 暁神祇

The contest took place over 16 rounds.

Other than Hisauji and Chikataka, participants included 藤原宗基, 藤原(or 斎藤)基雄, Jin Sadatoki (神貞説), 平近祐, 全藤, 細川政誠, 飯尾元行, 兼賀, 越智康通 and 松田頼亮, most of whom were bureaucrats in the Muromachi shogunate. The poetry is mostly of a frank and simply style, but the love poems in particular contain many allusions to The Tale of Genji, revealing the warrior poets' deep affection for that work. The judgements laid down in the surviving record of the contest are quite detailed, and it is likely that the judge was a highly skilled poet of the aristocratic (kuge) class.