nawade
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Nawade ({{langx|my|နဝဒေး}}; also spelt Nawaday) is a title given by the Burmese kings to the poets laureate of ancient Burma. Whereas there were at least five court poets who were given the title of Nawade{{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}} only two are frequently discussed in academic circles.{{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}}
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 Lord of Prome. According to one traditional telling, Nawadegyi was the son of Princess Narapati Medaw{{'s}} guardian.{{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}} 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,{{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}} as well as more than three hundred yadus.{{cite book|title=Journal of the Burma Research Society|page=63|year=1971|publisher=Burmese Research Society|volume=54}} He was a nonagenarian at the time of his death.
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. Three of them pertain to Burmese conquests, including Ar-than-naing Mawgun and Rakhine Naing Mawgun on the conquests of Assam and Rakhine respectively, as well as the missing Dawei Naing Mawgun on the takeover of Dawei; he also wrote Tayok Than Yuak Mawgun (1821), which details the arrival of a group of Chinese officials to Burma.{{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}} 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.
Influence
The first 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.{{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}}