Having been involved in two 100-poem collections, Go-Toba in became more determined to live as a poet and finally decided to make an anthology of poems (collected) by imperial command; in July 1201 he rebuilt the Waka-dokoro.
二度の百首歌を経ていよいよ和歌に志を深めた院はついに勅撰集の撰進を思い立ち、建仁元年（1201年）七月には和歌所を再興する。