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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Emperor Naruhito composed a poem unrelated to COVID-19 for the first time since the pandemic began at the New Year Poetry Reading at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Jan. 19.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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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 ...

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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." ...