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A tanka poem is an important form in Japanese poetry that follows a syllable pattern of 5-7-5-7-7. These poems are made up of five units which after translation into English, usually take the form of five lines.
It was initially known as Waka, which means “Japanese poem.”. Tanka, which means “short song,” emerged as a distinct form of Waka in the 13th century. Tanka is a lyrical, five-line poem that consists of 31 syllables. It is often described as a “longer Haiku” because of its structure.
After World War II, waka began to be considered out-of-date, but since the late 1980s it has revived under the example of contemporary poets, such as Machi Tawara. With her 1987 bestselling collection Salad Anniversary, the poet has been credited with revitalising the tanka for modern audiences.
Japanese literature - Tanka, Haiku, Revitalization: Even the traditional forms, tanka and haiku, though moribund in 1868, took on new life, thanks largely to the efforts of Masaoka Shiki, a distinguished late 19th-century poet in both forms but of even greater importance as a critic.
- Donald Keene
The tanka is a thirty-one-syllable poem, traditionally written in a single unbroken line. A form of waka, Japanese song or verse, tanka translates as “short song,” and is better known in its five-line, 5/7/5/7/7 syllable count form. History of the Tanka Form.
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Article History. Key People: Shōtetsu. Related Topics: Japanese literature. waka. tanka, in literature, a five-line, 31-syllable poem that has historically been the basic form of Japanese poetry. The term tanka is synonymous with the term waka (q.v.), which more broadly denotes all traditional Japanese poetry in classical forms.
