"Even major nuclear powers/ Have been completely flustered/ By an enemy as small as 0.1 micron." Tanka poems composed by Dokuho Okada, a Buddhist monk in Mihara, Hiroshima Prefecture, had a grain of ...

I recently read a book titled “Manyoshu was Hyangga” written by Kim Young-hoi. The book portrays a majority of ancient Japanese poems in “Manyoshu” ― a collection of a certain type of Japanese poetry ...

Hirohiko Okano, a prominent Japanese tanka poet who served as a poetry selector for the annual Utakai Hajime New Year’s poetry-reading ceremony at the Imperial Palace, died on April 24. He was 101.

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 ...

A family’s experience with internment during World War II and how traditional Japanese poetry helped them through it will be presented later this month in Oak Park. Writer and editor Nancy Matsumoto ...