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Recent Examples of tanka
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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Can a home furnishing-cabal haiku be far behind?—
Pat Beall,
Sun Sentinel,
13 Mar. 2026
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Best of all are terrace bathtubs crafted from rocks or hinoki cypress wood, filled with hot spring onsen water—plus haiku-inspiring valley views.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
26 Feb. 2026
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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The tracklist includes songs set in every season and a sonnet-like ode to an ice-cold Staropramen.—
Shaad D’Souza,
Pitchfork,
21 Mar. 2026
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If Wyatt and Surrey could pen brilliant sonnets under Tudor tyranny, then certainly great art can be produced under capitalism despite its particular degradations.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Mar. 2026
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“Tanka.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tanka. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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