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Fumiko Nakajō attended the Tokyo Academy of Home Economics (later Tokyo Kasei-Gakuin University) and studied tanka with Ikeda Kikan (1896–1956), a scholar of Japanese literature. Married in 1942, she gave birth to four children before the marriage was divorced.
Starting in 1990, Jane Reichhold ran the annual Tanka Splendor contests that resulted in an annual booklet announcing the winners. The Tanka Chapter of the Chaparral Poets of California was operating in the early 1960s, as mentioned in the Introduction to Sounds from the Unknown (1963), but it is not known whether it published a journal.
Heavenly Maiden Tanka is a collection of her poems translated by Hatsue Kawamura and Jane Reichhold. [2] She has won a number of prizes, including the 45th Yomiuri Prize [ 3 ] and the Asahi Prize . References
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.
A saijiki (歳時記, lit. "year-time chronicle") is a list of Japanese kigo (seasonal terms) used in haiku and related forms of poetry. An entry in a saijiki usually includes a description of the kigo itself, as well as a list of similar or related words, and some examples of haiku that include that kigo. [1]
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