“Gendai Hyakunin Isshu” (A modern version of a collection of one hundred waka poems by one ... or the Imperial New Year’s Poetry Reading ceremony, and as a tanka adviser for the imperial ...

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 ...

Tanka poems composed by Dokuho Okada, a Buddhist monk in Mihara, Hiroshima Prefecture, had a grain of light-hearted humor in them, even in one about the new coronavirus. Okada died in 2020 at the ...