Like haiku, tanka is a short, classical verse form that has attracted considerable attention in this century.
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Tanka
Synonyms for "tanka" (26 found)
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Translations
24 translations across 17 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- شعب تانكا noun (member of a group of southern Chinese people who traditionally live on junks)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- 蜑家 noun (member of a group of southern Chinese people who traditionally live on junks)
- 蜑家人 noun (member of a group of southern Chinese people who traditionally live on junks)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 水上居民 noun (member of a group of southern Chinese people who traditionally live on junks)
- 短歌 noun (a Japanese verse)
- 蜑戶 /蜑户 noun (member of a group of southern Chinese people who traditionally live on junks)
- 蜑民 noun (member of a group of southern Chinese people who traditionally live on junks)
Estonian
1 entries- tanka noun (a Japanese verse)
Finnish
1 entries- tanka noun (a Japanese verse)
French
1 entries- Tanka noun (member of a group of southern Chinese people who traditionally live on junks)
German
1 entries- Tanka noun (member of a group of southern Chinese people who traditionally live on junks)
Hausa
1 entries- Tanka noun (member of a group of southern Chinese people who traditionally live on junks)
Indonesian
1 entries- suku Tanka noun (member of a group of southern Chinese people who traditionally live on junks)
Japanese
2 entries- 短歌 noun (a Japanese verse)
- 蛋民 noun (member of a group of southern Chinese people who traditionally live on junks)
Javanese
1 entries- wong Tanka noun (member of a group of southern Chinese people who traditionally live on junks)
Korean
1 entries- 단카 noun (a Japanese verse)
Norwegian
1 entries- tanka noun (member of a group of southern Chinese people who traditionally live on junks)
Polish
2 entries- Tanka noun (member of a group of southern Chinese people who traditionally live on junks)
- tanka noun (a Japanese verse)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਟਾਂਕਾ ਲੋਕ noun (member of a group of southern Chinese people who traditionally live on junks)
Russian
2 entries- Даньцзя noun (member of a group of southern Chinese people who traditionally live on junks)
- та́нка noun (a Japanese verse)
Turkish
1 entries- Tanka insanları noun (member of a group of southern Chinese people who traditionally live on junks)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
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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