Following the example of the thirty-six major poets selected by FUJIWARA no Kinto, the new ones were selected with no overlapping, and so far there are two kinds of "new thirty-six major poets" as follows.
藤原公任の撰にかかる三十六歌仙に倣って、重複なく新たに選ばれたもので、現在までに以下の二種確認されている。