kyōka
Sign in to savethumb|upright=2|Two pages from the anthology Kokon kyōka-bukuro (1787), by Santō Kyōden|Kitao Masanobu and published by [[Tsutaya Jūzaburō ]] Kyōka (, "wild" or "mad poetry") is a popular, parodic subgenre of the tanka form of Japanese poetry with a metre of 5-7-5-7-7. The form flourished during the Edo period (17th–18th centuries) and reached its zenith during the Tenmei era (1781–89).
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thumb|upright=2|Two pages from the anthology Kokon kyōka-bukuro (1787), by Santō Kyōden|Kitao Masanobu and published by [[Tsutaya Jūzaburō ]] Kyōka (, "wild" or "mad poetry") is a popular, parodic subgenre of the tanka form of Japanese poetry with a metre of 5-7-5-7-7. The form flourished during the Edo period (17th–18th centuries) and reached its zenith during the Tenmei era (1781–89).
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