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- Poetry & creative work
Recommended Tanka, 1
An introduction to poems by a priest of Daigoji reflects on doubt, affection, loneliness and death, with commentary and response poems from his student.
- Poetry & creative work
Tanka Models, 1
Examples of tanka revisit wartime childhood, family and changing seasons, accompanied by discussion of allusive composition and advice on writing from lived feeling.
- Collections
Poems of a Gathering
Tanka from several contributors evoke meetings over drinks in Yokohama and Kyoto, with poems sent from elsewhere and reflections on friendship and distance from home.
- Essays
Memories of Hanakage
A recollection prompted by the song Hanakage traces an elder sister’s work within a large family, her marriage and the pain of separation and loss.
- Poetry & creative work
Tanka Drafts: Examples
Sample tanka with prose introductions demonstrate responses to another poet, reflections on writing and mortality, and remembrance of Kitahara Hakushu. An archived set of tanka examples and writing guidance published in 2020. All five poems, their prose introductions, readings and original signatures are retained, together with the opening and closing guidance. Course details and invitations to submit work are historical, not current guidance.
- Poetry & creative work
Tanka Draft: Moss and the Visitor
A response poem evokes a moss-cleared threshold, a visitor and a sleeve reflected in water. A separately published tanka source from the Japanese website. Its original introduction, poem, readings and signature are preserved.
- Poetry & creative work
Tanka Draft: The Writer’s Departure
A tanka imagines the writer’s pen and books remaining together until the day their owner must depart. A separately published tanka source from the Japanese website. Its original introduction, poem, readings and signature are preserved.