tanka

During the 1970s the number of Tanka was reported to be shrinking.

He would die four years after taking up tanka as a topic.

In addition to her book, she wrote tanka, a Japanese short poem.

The harbour was once a gathering water of Tanka people.

The beach was a gathering place for many Tanka fishermen before its development.

The term Tanka is now considered derogatory and no longer in common use.

So, the term waka came in time to mean the same as tanka.

Hated, too, the fact that Tanka treated them as if they were children not yet ready for the adult world.

During British rule some special schools were created for the Tanka.

The frequency of the disease is higher among Tanka.

In the past, many Tanka fishermen harboured at the bay.

Born into a Tanka family, he is a fisherman.

He is a figure of Japanese poems with tanka and haiku.

By 1945 he composed three thousand tanka and even more haiku.

He spoke to them in Tanka, a language Ned did not understand.

Poems read at the ceremony belong to the tanka genre.

It was named Yūsentei after a later lord's tanka poetry.

Fuzhou Tanka people had a rich tradition of folk music, especially call and response.

Their verses are written only in classical tanka style.

Many Tanka women conceived children with foreign men.

She is credited with revitalizing the tanka for modern Japanese audiences.

She published Karoki-netami, the first of her five tanka anthologies, in 1912.

His skilled writing of haiku and tanka is acknowledged internationally.

He also wrote on reform of tanka poetry.

Wakan Tanka was supposed to have placed the stones and minerals in the ground.