Keene credited Shiki with reviving and modernizing classical haiku and tanka poetry, which were in decline at the time. The following passage is from the preface of Keene's biography on Shiki ...

Students will learn about an ancient poetic tradition of Japan. Students will write tanka poetry in the correct form. What are the poems about? What images come to mind? How do the lengths and form of ...

Acclaimed poet Mutsuo Takahashi, 86, is known for penning haiku and tanka poems while fellow 86-year-old Junko Nakanishi specializes in environmental risk management as a professor emeritus at ...

Geography Standard 15: Students know how physical systems affect human systems. Part 1: Students will synthesize a chart with the rules of haiku poetry. They will be able to use the class-generated ...