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 ...

His great joy in life was composing tanka poems. When he died last summer, his ashes were buried in the grounds of the sanitarium where he spent the last decades of his life isolated from society.

Last month, an experiment called “Marugoto Tanka,” meaning the entire village is for tanka poetry, was held in the town, and I went to check it out. With the aid of a map, the idea was to look ...