Entō On-hyakushu 遠島御百首, or ‘A Hundred Verses from a Distant Island’, is the work of Emperor Gotoba 後鳥羽天皇 (1180-1239; r. 1183-98). Gotoba was a major patron of the arts, commissioning the Shinkokinshū from Fujiwara no Teika, and disagreeing with him over the poems for inclusion. In 1221, however, he instigated an attempt to overthrow the Kamakura Shogunate and was exiled from Kyoto to the island of Oki 隠岐 as a punishment. In his early days of exile there, when he was feeling the loss of the capital most keenly, he composed this hundred poem sequence.