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'''Nawade''' ({{langx|my|နဝဒေး}}; also spelt '''Nawaday''') is a title given by the [[List of Burmese monarchs|Burmese kings]] to the [[poet laureate]]s of ancient [[Burma]]. Whereas there were at least five court poets who were given the title of Nawade<ref>{{cite book|title=An Outline History of Myanmar Literature: Pagan Period to Kon-baung Period|author=Khin Maung Nyuntt|publisher=Yangon|year=1999|page=71|asin=B00398UY4C}}</ref> only two are frequently discussed in academic circles.<ref name=ThawKaung>{{cite web|url=http://www.siamese-heritage.org/jsspdf/2011/JSS_099_0e_ThawKaung_MyanmarPoeticAccountOfAyutthayaVanquish.pdf|author=Thaw Kaung|title=The Myanmar Poetic Account of Ayutthaya Vanquished: Notes on Its Rediscovery and Significance|year=2011|page=27}}</ref>
==First Nawade==
The first Nawade (1498–1588), known as '''Nawadegyi''' as well as the '''Prome Nawade''', was a warrior and tutored the brother-in-law of the [[List of rulers of Prome|Lord of Prome]].<ref name=Toungoo/> According to one traditional telling, Nawadegyi was the son of Princess [[Salin Mibaya|Narapati Medaw]]{{'s}} guardian.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Journal Of The Burma Research Society|year=1920|title=A Dictionary of Burmese Authors|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.70644|accessdate=23 May 2018|page=143}}</ref> Nawadegyi served multiple kings, including [[Sithu Kyawhtin]] and [[Bayinnaung]] (the latter of whom conferred the title upon him). He often wrote poetry that exalted the royal family, including missing ''Manawhari Pyo'' (1579) which concerns the Thudanu Prince,<ref name=Toungoo>{{cite news|newspaper=Burma Press|number=8|volume=1|date=November 1987|page=11|title=Toungoo Period Writers|url=http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs3/BPS87-11.pdf}}</ref> as well as more than three hundred ''yadu''s.<ref>{{cite book|title=Journal of the Burma Research Society|page=63|year=1971|publisher=Burmese Research Society|volume=54}}</ref> He was a nonagenarian at the time of his death.<ref name=Toungoo/>
==Second Nawade==
The second Nawade, '''Dutiya''' (1756–1840), also known as Wetmasut Nawade after the town he frequented or Mawsun Nawade due to the fact that he wrote at least fifteen ''[[mawgun]]'' in his lifetime.<ref name=ThawKaung/> Three of them pertain to Burmese [[conquest (military)|conquest]]s, including ''Ar-than-naing Mawgun'' and ''Rakhine Naing Mawgun'' on the conquests of [[Assam]] and [[Rakhine State|Rakhine]] respectively, as well as the missing ''Dawei Naing Mawgun'' on the takeover of [[Dawei]];<ref name=ThawKaung/> he also wrote ''Tayok Than Yuak Mawgun'' (1821), which details the arrival of a group of Chinese officials to Burma.<ref>{{cite book|title=Red peacocks: commentaries on Burmese socialist nationalism|author1=U Kyaw Ei|first2=John H.|last2=Badgley|publisher=Readworthy Publications|year=2009|isbn=9789380009209}}</ref> When the manuscript of Letwe Nawrahta's ''Yodaya Naing Mawgun'' was first catalogued, the poem was misattributed to the second Nawade, and this was not rectified until decades later.<ref name=ThawKaung/>
==Influence==
The first [[Ayeyarwady river|Ayeyarwady River]] bridge at Pyay-Sinde Road in Pyay, which was commissioned into service by the ruling ''[[tatmadaw]]'' in 1997, was named the Nawade Bridge.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The New Light of Myanmar|date=10 February 2005|page=10|title=Development in Bago Division after 1988|number=300|volume=12|url=http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs2/NLM2005-02-10.pdf}}</ref>
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