Japanese Tanka: The Court Poetry of a Golden Age by Thomas Gurgal

Japanese Tanka: The Court Poetry of a Golden Age

Thomas Gurgal with Maggie Jarvis

60 pages first pub 1972 (editions)

nonfiction
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From the introduction:"The tanka, with its thirty-one syllables arranged in lines of 5, 7, 5, 7 and 7, is the aboriginal form of Japanese poetry. Tanka were recited before Japan had a written language and are still composed today." 

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