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  2. Tanka - Wikipedia

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    Tanka (短歌, "short poem") is a genre of classical Japanese poetry and one of the major genres of Japanese literature. [1][2][3] Etymology. Originally, in the time of the influential poetry anthology Man'yōshū (latter half of the eighth century AD), the term tanka was used to distinguish "short poems" from the longer chōka (長歌, "long poems"). [3] .

  3. Tanka Poetry - Definition and Examples - Poem Analysis

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    An anthology of Japanese poetry, Ten Thousand Leaves, that dates to 759, contains around forty-two hundred poems written in the tanka form. Today, tanka poetry is considered to be one of the most important forms to originate from Japan.

  4. Tanka Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

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    The meaning of TANKA is an unrhymed Japanese verse form of five lines containing five, seven, five, seven, and seven syllables respectively; also : a poem in this form.

  5. What is Tanka? - Tanka Journal

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    Tanka is a poetry form which originated in Japan more than 13 centuries ago. In its purest form, tanka poems are most commonly written as expressions of gratitude, love, or self-reflection. Suitors would send a tanka to a woman the day after a date, and she would reply in kind.

  6. Tanka - Academy of American Poets

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    The tanka is a thirty-one-syllable poem, traditionally written in a single unbroken line. A form of waka, Japanese song or verse, tanka translates as “short song,” and is better known in its five-line, 5/7/5/7/7 syllable count form. History of the Tanka Form.

  7. Tanka Poetry Defined: 3 Examples of Tanka Poems - 2024 - ...

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    Tanka poems, which originated in Japan, are short poems intended to evoke vivid imagery and reflection for the reader. They are free verse, so they do not have to rhyme, but must follow specific syllable patterns.

  8. What is Japanese Tanka poetry: forms and examples by famous poems

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    Tanka, the oldest Japanese poetrys definition and examples. Although haiku is famous as traditional Japanese poetry throughout the world, Tanka that has more 1000 years history than haiku. Tanka has been closely attached to the lives of people and loved by them still today beyond the years.

  9. What Is Tanka? - Tanka Society of America

    www.tankasocietyofamerica.org/essays/what-is-tanka

    Tanka may be defined in several ways, but this often lyrical, chiefly five-line poem, derived from the Japanese tanka and its predecessor, waka, continues to attract poets around the world.

  10. A tanka is a slightly longer version of the more familiar haiku. Most tankas take the form of five lines divided into five, seven, five, seven, and seven syllables — if you feel hampered by the typical three brief lines of a haiku, you should try writing a tanka instead.

  11. Tanka | Japanese poetry | Britannica

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    tanka, in literature, a five-line, 31-syllable poem that has historically been the basic form of Japanese poetry. The term tanka is synonymous with the term waka ( q.v. ), which more broadly denotes all traditional Japanese poetry in classical forms.