Illustration: In a private tatami room overlooking an autumn garden, a small poetry circle listens as an older woman recites her newly composed tanka. She holds a slender poem card angled with its plain reverse toward the viewer, her mouth open mid-recitation and her free hand marking the gentle cadence.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

短たん歌か

tanka

tanka poem

Traditionally follows a 5–7–5–7–7 mora pattern. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 短歌たんかは、五七五七七ごしちごしちしちの五句ごくからなるもの。

    Tanka consist of five lines in the pattern 5-7-5-7-7.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 現代げんだい短歌たんかは前衛短歌ぜんえいたんかから始はじまったとも言いわれる。

    Some believe that modern tanka poetry has its roots in avant-garde tanka poetry.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 詩歌しかとは、詩しや短歌たんかのことです。

    Shika are verses and 31-syllable poems.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 短歌

  • 短short; brevityOnタンKunみじかい
  • 歌song; singOnカKunうた・うたう

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