Tanka

Like haiku, tanka is a short, classical verse form that has attracted considerable attention in this century.

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One tanka poet who directly influenced Kenji is Ishikawa takuboku, who lineated tanka—an extraordinary break with the tradition of writing tanka in one line.

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The notion of rhyming in Japanese tanka poetry is applied differently from what we observe in the Western poetry tradition.

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In the practice of yoga certain functions which were previously subconscious become open to consciousness; this opening of the subconscious is well pictured in certain Tibetan tankas, or in Western art, in the Temptation of St. Anthony paintings by Bosch and Grünewald.

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