Tanka

This article is about modern Japanese poetry. For other uses, see Tanka (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Tankan (Japan).
Tanka
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one of the poetry cards from the card game version of the Ogura Hyakunin isshu, a beloved complilation of tanka

Tanka (短歌, "short poem") is a genre of classical Japanese poetry and one of the major genres of Japanese literature.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ Ueda, Makoto. Modern Japanese Tanka. NY: Columbia University Press, 1996. p1. ISBN 978-0-231-10433-3
  2. ^ Fujiwara, Sadaie; Galt, Thomas Franklin, eds. (1982). The little treasury of one hundred people, one poem each. The Lockert library of poetry in translation (in English and Japanese). Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-06514-4.
  3. ^ Turco, Lewis; Turco, Lewis (1986). The new book of forms: a handbook of poetics. Hanover: University Press of New England. ISBN 978-0-87451-380-6.