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During the Kojiki and Nihonshoki periods the tanka retained a well defined form, but the history of the mutations of the tanka itself forms an important chapter in haiku history, [7] until the modern revival of tanka began with several poets who began to publish literary magazines, gathering their friends and disciples as contributors.
Haiku (俳句, listen ⓘ) is a type of short form poetry that originated in Japan. Traditional Japanese haiku consist of three phrases composed of 17 morae (called on in Japanese) in a 5, 7, 5 pattern; [1] that include a kireji, or "cutting word"; [2] and a kigo, or seasonal reference.
[a] Sometimes they are written in the three-line, seventeen-syllable haiku form, although the most common type of death poem (called a jisei 辞世) is in the waka form called the tanka (also called a jisei-ei 辞世詠) which consists of five lines totaling 31 syllables (5-7-5-7-7)—a form that constitutes over half of surviving death poems ...
Mitsuhashi Takajo was born near Narita. She was an admirer of Akiko Yosano and her father wrote tanka.In 1922 she married Kenzō (東 謙三), a dentist who wrote haiku and that influenced her to switch to haiku herself.
This is a list of kigo, which are words or phrases that are associated with a particular season in Japanese poetry.They provide an economy of expression that is especially valuable in the very short haiku, as well as the longer linked-verse forms renku and renga, to indicate the season referenced in the poem or stanza.
Hototogisu (ホトトギス, "lesser cuckoo"). Front of Hototogisu, 1905 March Edition. is a Japanese literary magazine focusing primarily on haiku.Founded in 1897, it was responsible for the spread of modern haiku among the Japanese public [1] and is now Japan's most prestigious and long-lived haiku periodical.
In the time of the Man'yōshū (compiled after 759 AD), the term "tanka" was used to distinguish "short poems" from the longer chōka (長歌, "long poems").In the ninth and tenth centuries, however, notably with the compilation of the Kokin Wakashū, the short poem became the dominant form of poetry in Japan, and the originally general word waka (和歌, "Japanese poem") became the standard ...
The significant anthology of early haikai renga from which haiku later developed. Kai Ōi (The Seashell Game) (1672): hokku anthology, compiled by Matsuo Bashō; Haikai Shichibushū: the conventional name for seven anthologies collecting Matsuo Bashō and his disciples' renku. [8] Fuyunohi (A Winter Day) Harunohi (A Spring Day) Arano (Wilderness)