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The tanka standard was introduced in the prosperous Himalayan Kathmandu Valley (Nepal proper) in the 16th century. It was modeled on the currency of Delhi, Bengal and the Mughal Empire. The Nepalese tanka was a debased silver coin struck in 10 g. weight with minor denominations of 1⁄4, 1⁄32, 1⁄123, 1⁄512.
Tanka origins can be traced back to the native ethnic minorities of southern China known historically as the Baiyue who may have taken refuge on the sea and gradually assimilated into Han Chinese culture. However, Tanka have preserved many of their native traditions not found in Han culture. A small number of Tankas also live in parts of Vietnam.
Leonardo da Vinci sketch of his armored fighting vehicle. Leonardo da Vinci is often credited with the invention of a war machine that resembled a tank. [6] In the 15th century, a Hussite called Jan Žižka won several battles using armoured wagons containing cannons that could be fired through holes in their sides, but his invention was not used after his lifetime until the 20th century. [7]
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.
The tanka was one tola, then 96 grains of silver, which, divided by 2, was made up of 48 jitals. Balban 's billon tankas contained 4.5 grains of silver and were worth two jitals. Balban introduced bilingual billon coins, a practice continued by his successors.
Jalaluddin's tanka (taka), Bengal Sultanate, 15th century . According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language and Banglapedia, the word taka came from the Sanskrit word tankah, meaning silver coin. [3] [4] The word taka in Bangla is also commonly used generically to mean any money, currency, or notes. Thus, colloquially, a ...
Some of these Catholic Tanka consequently moved onto land under the protection of the Catholic Church. In the Republican era, the ethnic egalitarianism was guaranteed by law. Since the 1950s, the city officials began to resettle Fuzhou Tanka to land dwellings. As a result, many Fuzhou Tanka villages were built along the Min River and the coast.
This was in reaction to the style of the tanka poets associated with Myōjō magazine (such as Yosano Akiko) which emphasized the passionate side of human nature. Members of the Shazensō-sha included the noted Naturalist tanka poets Wakayama Bokusui and Maeda Yūgure , a pupil of Onoe Saishū.