Kanoko Okamoto , born Kano Ōnuki , was the pen-name of a Japanese author, tanka poet, and Buddhist scholar active during the Taishō and early Shōwa periods of Japan.
Kanoko Okamoto
Tanka is a genre of classical Japanese poetry and one of the major genres of Japanese literature.
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Last tanka poems by Miyazawa Kenji wrote in September of 1933 before his death. It reads: Within these ten square miles: is this in Hinuki alone? The rice ripe and for three festival days the whole sky clear Because of an illness, crumbling, this life— if I could give it for the dharma how glad I would be
Ceremony of the Utakai Hajime, about 1950