Welcome to a poetic exploration of restaurant cuisine! We are about to describe delicious dishes in a unique style called tanka poems. Think of it as a journey through food, where we use words to ...

Food and poetry are like two friends who come together to create a delightful experience. Food inspires poets to describe its flavors, textures, and emotions it evokes, while poetry adds a touch of ...

"Even major nuclear powers/ Have been completely flustered/ By an enemy as small as 0.1 micron." Tanka poems composed by Dokuho Okada, a Buddhist monk in Mihara, Hiroshima Prefecture, had a grain of ...

“I tilt the bottle/ wanting to trap/ the sparkling fireworks/ inside the glass marble of/ my 'ramune' soda.” Minami Towada, a junior high school first-year student, composed this tanka, beautifully ...

I recently read a book titled “Manyoshu was Hyangga” written by Kim Young-hoi. The book portrays a majority of ancient Japanese poems in “Manyoshu” ― a collection of a certain type of Japanese poetry ...

Students will experience poetry as a form of communication. Students will learn about an ancient poetic tradition of Japan. Students will write tanka poetry in the correct form. What are the poems ...

Striking a match / momentarily / I see the foggy ocean – / is there a motherland / I can dedicate myself to? [ The translation of above quote is by Ms. Kozue Uzawa and Ms. Amelia Fielden cited from ...