Tanka poems composed by Dokuho Okada, a Buddhist monk in Mihara, Hiroshima Prefecture, had a grain of light-hearted humor in them, even in one about the new coronavirus. Okada died in 2020 at the ...

Students will experience poetry as a form of communication. Students will learn about an ancient poetic tradition of Japan. Students will write tanka poetry in the correct form. What are the poems ...

He served as a judge for the annual “Utakai Hajime,” or the Imperial New Year’s Poetry Reading ceremony, and as a tanka adviser for the imperial family. His grand resume belies his checkered ...

Instead, she dealt with the pain by writing tanka, a traditional form of Japanese poetry using only 31 syllables. One of her poems translates to, "Friends missing during hide-and-seek. I live ...

France declared a full lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Shortly thereafter, poets and friends Marilyn ...