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 ...

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 ...

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 ...