Waka (poetry)
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Waka is a type of poetry in classical Japanese literature. Although waka in modern Japanese is written as 和歌, in the past it was also written as 倭歌, and a variant name is yamato-uta.
The Kokin Wakashū is an early (c. 900) anthology of waka poetry which fixed the form of Japanese poetry.
Tanka
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Tanka is a genre of classical Japanese poetry and one of the major genres of Japanese literature.
A poetry card from the card game version of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, a compilation of tanka
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