Sengaku (仙覚, 1203 – c. 1273) was aJapaneseBuddhist monk of theTendai school. He was a scholar, editor and a literary critic.^[1]

His major work,Man'yōshū chūshaku, was completed in 1269. This was a treatise on the collected poems in theMan'yōshū anthology.^[1] His work was instrumental in a process of rediscovering the original meaning of this seminal work of Japanese poetry.

Sengaku's published writings encompass 9 works in 12 publications in 1 language and 53 library holdings.^[2]

• Man'ʼyōshū chūshaku (萬葉集註釋) (1269);Man'ʼyōshū chūshaku: Sengaku shō, Ninnaji zō (萬葉集註釋: 仙覺抄, 仁和寺藏) Akihiro Satake, ed. (1981).ISBN 9784653005889;OCLC 23315980
• Man'yōshū (萬葉集) (1709)OCLC 069224675

• Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005).Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge:Harvard University Press.ISBN 9780674017535;OCLC 48943301

• Shimura, Shirō. (1999).Sanetomo, Sengaku : Kamakura kadan no kenkyū (実朝・仙覚: 鎌倉歌壇の研究). Tōkyo: Shintensha,

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