Japanese poetry is poetry typical of Japan, or written, spoken, or chanted in the Japanese language, which includes Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese...
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List of Japanese language poets List of Japanese classic texts Japanese poetry List of poetry anthologies List of National Treasures of Japan (writings)...
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when Japan was emerging from a period where much of its poetry followed Chinese form. Tanka was originally the shorter form of Japanese formal poetry (which...
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Waka (和歌, "Japanese poem") is a type of poetry in classical Japanese literature. Although waka in modern Japanese is written as 和歌, in the past it was...
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The Japanese New Year (正月, Shōgatsu) is an annual festival that takes place in Japan. Since 1873, the official Japanese New Year has been celebrated according...
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Chinese poetry by the Japanese in Taiwan (Chinese: 在臺日人漢詩) refers to the Chinese poems written by Japanese authors in Taiwan between 1895 and 1945, or...
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a Japanese term for Chinese poetry in general as well as the Japanese poetry written in Chinese by Japanese poets. It literally means "Han poetry". Kanshi...
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Japanese (日本語, Nihongo, [ɲihoŋɡo] ) is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 123 million...
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On (音; rarely onji) are the phonetic units in Japanese poetry. In the Japanese language, the word means "sound". It includes the phonetic units counted...
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Haiku (category Japanese poetry)
short form poetry that originated in Japan. Traditional Japanese haiku consist of three phrases composed of 17 morae (called on in Japanese) in a 5, 7...
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Myōjō (category Japanese poetry)
It is regarded as having a crucial influence on the development of Japanese poetry and literature in the early 20th century. Myōjō was short lived, as...
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Tanka (redirect from Tanka poetry)
dominant form of poetry in Japan, and the originally general word waka (和歌, "Japanese poem") became the standard name for this form. Japanese poet and critic...
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Man'yōshū (category Japanese poetry anthologies)
Leaves") is the oldest extant collection of Japanese waka (poetry in Old Japanese or Classical Japanese), compiled sometime after AD 759 during the Nara...
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Japan Gosen-Neu Zittau, Brandenburg, Germany Gosen (Company), a Japanese manufacturer of sporting equipment Gosen Wakashū, an ancient Japanese poetry...
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Japanese poetry emerges, and the first imperial poetry anthologies are compiled 759 Japanese general Otomo no Yakamochi compiles the first Japanese poetry...
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Utamakura (category Japanese poetry)
Utamakura (歌枕, "poem pillow") is a rhetorical concept in Japanese poetry. Utamakura is a category of poetic words, often involving place names, that allow...
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of Poetry), the oldest collection of Chinese poetry (kanshi) written by Japanese poets Kokin Wakashū (completed around 905) (collection of Japanese poems...
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earliest traces of Japanese literature date to the 7th century and consist of Japanese verse (waka) and poetry written in Chinese by Japanese poets (kanshi)...
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Kigo (category Japanese poetry)
associated with a particular season, used in traditional forms of Japanese poetry. Kigo are used in the collaborative linked-verse forms renga and renku...
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University Japan portal Literature portal List of Japanese writers List of Japanese classical texts Japanese poetry Aozora Bunko – a repository of Japanese literature...
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which is widely considered the finest collection of Japanese poetry. During this period, Japan suffered a series of natural disasters, including wildfires...
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adaptation of Chinese and Japanese poetry, made the stark juxtaposition of images an important part of English-language poetry. Edward Parmelee Morris wrote...
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tanka or tänka in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tanka is a form of Japanese poetry. Tanka may also refer to: Tanka people, an ethnic group in China Tanka...
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A slam poetry is a competitive art event in which poets perform spoken word poetry before a live audience and a panel of judges. While formats can vary...
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Arthur Waley (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
popular and scholarly acclaim for his translations of Chinese and Japanese poetry. Among his honours were appointment as Commander of the Order of the...
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Kokin Wakashū (category Japanese poetry anthologies)
of Japanese Poems of Ancient and Modern Times"), commonly abbreviated as Kokinshū (古今集), is an early anthology of the waka form of Japanese poetry, dating...
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Chūya Nakahara (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
was a Japanese poet active during the early Shōwa period. Originally shaped by Dada and other forms of European (mainly French) experimental poetry, he...
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The Japanese bush warbler (Horornis diphone), known in Japanese as uguisu (鶯), is an Asian passerine bird more often heard than seen. Its distinctive...
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Murasaki Shikibu (category Japanese poetry)
as music, calligraphy and Japanese poetry. Murasaki's education was unorthodox. Louis Perez explains in The History of Japan that "Women ... were thought...
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