Handwritten “waka” poems by Emperor Hirohito, posthumously known as Emperor Showa, are exhibited at the Gakushuin University Museum of History in Tokyo’s Toshima Ward.

The following are three waka poems composed by Empress Michiko on various themes and released for New Year's Day. 【Related】Presentation of 5 waka poems by His Majesty the Emperor to mark New ...

The following are five waka poems written by Emperor Akihito on themes related to events throughout 2017, the 29th year of the Heisei era, released for Jan 1, 2018.

His presentation, titled "The Wind from Vulture Peak: Japanese Buddhist Poetry and the Heian Aesthetic," is free and open to the public. Miller is regarded as an expert on medieval waka poetry, a ...

Tokyo's population of crows get their due in a charming doc. By THR Staff Tokyo Waka: A City Poem Still - H 2013 Around 20,000 of the large black birds currently share Tokyo with humans, a number ...

Despite the poetry its subtitle promises, the fascinating crows-in-the-skyline doc Tokyo Waka is more informative than lyric, which is not at all a complaint. Directors ...

MacMillan's idea for his version of the karuta (Japanese playing card) game began to form after he translated the classical anthology of Japanese waka poems "Ogura Hyakunin Isshu" ("One Hundred ...

Poetry calms the savage - Poetry mirrors society. Waka is synonymous with Tanka, meaning short poem, which is the basic form of Japanese poetry. The small pieces running into five lines ...