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 ...

Last month, an experiment called “Marugoto Tanka,” meaning the entire village is for tanka poetry, was held in the town, and I went to check it out. With the aid of a map, the idea was to look ...

A collection of “tanka” poems about the COVID-19 pandemic that Gendai Tanka Kyokai (The association of contemporary tanka poets) published recently gives us a look back on the last three years.