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The Man'yō Shikō (万葉私考) is a 10-volume commentary on the Man'yōshū written by the kokugaku scholar Miyaji Haruki (宮地春樹).

The Man'yō Shikō is a commentary on the Man'yōshū, an eighth-century anthology of waka poetry,^[1] by Miyaji Haruki,^[1] an Edo period kokugaku scholar,^[2] Confucianist,^[2] retainer of Tosa Domain,^[2] and student of Nishiyori Seisai,^[2] Motoori Norinaga,^[3] and Hagiwara Sōko.^[2]

The Man'yō Shikō had its beginnings in the Haruki's personally-annotated copy (書入本 kakiire-bon) of the Man'yōshū,^[1] which he had completed on the 17th day of the fifth month of Tenmei 4 (4 July 1784 in the Gregorian calendar).^[1] A week or so later he set to work on a rewrite of these notes with a preface (第一冊識語 dai-issatsu shikigo).^[1] He died of illness in the fourth month of the following year,^[3] with his commentary incomplete.^[1] He was 58 years old, by Japanese reckoning.^[2]

The Man'yō Shikō records Haruki's views of various expressions and compositional circumstances over which the Man'yōshū Kō (万葉集考) and Man'yō Daishōki [ja] had expressed doubt.^[1]

It contains views likely acquired by Haruki from his teacher Norinaga,^[1] as well as indicating the fountainhead of the Tosa school of Man'yō scholarship.^[1] For these reasons Tadashi Ōkubo [ja] (1919–1980), in his article on the work for the 1983 Nihon Koten Bungaku Daijiten, states that it has attracted the attention of scholars interested in the history of Man'yōshū research.^[1]

A copy formerly in the holdings of Numata Yorisuke [ja] had been published posthumously by Haruki's son and heir Miyaji Nakae [ja],^[1] but as of Ōkubo's writing of the Nihon Koten Bungaku Daijiten article said copy's whereabouts were unknown.^[1] The edition printed in the Nihon Koten Zenshū is based on a handcopied text made by Masamune Atsuo.^[1]