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tanka
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Also known as short poem

thumb|A poetry card from the card game version of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, a compilation of tanka

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  • Etymology
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  • Poetic culture
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  • Modern anthologies
  • Modern translations

thumb|A poetry card from the card game version of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, a compilation of tanka

is a genre of classical Japanese poetry and one of the major genres of Japanese literature.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “tanka” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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