“I fell asleep during an online lesson/ And woke up to find only myself on the screen,” goes a tanka poem by Rintaro Murakami, a third-year junior high school student. Around this time every ...

Around this time every year, Toyo University announces the results of its annual poetry contest called “Gendai Gakusei Hyakunin Isshu” (One hundred tanka poems by contemporary students).

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 ...