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Each photo is combined with a tanka (a five-line, 31-syllable poem) written through the lens of a 10-year-old girl encountering the Jews for the first time, composed by poet Hiroko Yamagata.
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Josh Hasten, Sun Sentinel, 21 Sep. 2022
Her third and most critically acclaimed film, Forever a Woman (1955), is a tender, yearning portrait of a tanka poet with breast cancer and one of the first films anywhere to show a mastectomy.
—Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2022
His haiku and tanka translations influenced Pound, Rexroth, and others.
—Jonathan Dee, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
Josh Hasten, Sun Sentinel, 21 Sep. 2022
Her third and most critically acclaimed film, Forever a Woman (1955), is a tender, yearning portrait of a tanka poet with breast cancer and one of the first films anywhere to show a mastectomy.
—Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2022
His haiku and tanka translations influenced Pound, Rexroth, and others.
—Jonathan Dee, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tanka
Noun
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The name harked back to an eccentricity in the wording of the BeOS Web browser's error messages: They were all rendered as haiku, the classic Japanese poetry form.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
26 Apr. 2012
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Use it to simplify, not just amplify Ask AI to explain complex concepts in plain English, like in the style of a tweet, a haiku, or for a 12-year-old.—
William Arruda,
Forbes.com,
11 May 2025
Noun
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The construction is the same -- three lines, 17 syllables, with five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second line and five syllables on the third line -- but the tone and subject matter of a senryu is different.—
Mary Colurso | mcolurso@al.com,
al,
19 Nov. 2020
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The event is open to anyone interested in learning about the modern haiku, senryu and haibun types of poetry, focusing on contemporary free verse forms, not the familiar five-seven-five-syllable structure.—
Carole Goldberg,
courant.com,
7 Aug. 2019
Noun
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Almost too passionately anguished, Austen is a sonnet played on the fortepiano, while Winslet is Liszt banged out on a Steinway.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
19 July 2025
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The poem was published in Shakespeare’s 1609 quarto of 154 sonnets, which wasn’t widely popular in its day.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
10 Mar. 2025
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“Tanka.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tanka. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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