These Shisen (poetry immortals) were selected from poets of each of the Han, Jin, Tang, and Song eras in China following the example of the Japanese Thirty-six Poetry Immortals (a group of medieval Japanese poets), and also influenced by the tastes of Razan HAYASHI (a Confucian scholar in the early Edo period).
詩仙は日本の三十六歌仙にならい林羅山の意見をもとめながら漢晋唐宋の各時代から選ばれた。