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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 ...
Meanwhile, Princess Aiko's poem was a reflection on the form of waka poetry, "Surviving centuries of hardship / The words of Waka poems / Touch my heart today." ...
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.
Waka translates to "Japanese poem" in Japanese. “The ceramics are by one of the artists, who is probably the most interesting woman artist in 19th century Japan, Ōtagaki Rengetsu,” Nisbet said.