Generally speaking, 'new thirty-six major poets' refers to the latter ones which cover the representative thirty-six poets after Shin Kokin (New Collection of Ancient and Modern Poetry) until the middle of the Kamakura period such as Gotoba in and FUJIWARA no Hideyoshi/Hideto, and each poet's ten excellent poems were selected.
2は後鳥羽院より藤原秀能まで、新古今期以降鎌倉時中期までの代表的歌人三十六人を挙げ、その秀歌を十首ずつ選んだものであり、通常「新三十六歌仙」といえばこれを指す。