“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 ...

When I was in school, why was tap water so good whenever ... “Anata no Tame no Tanka-shu” (Collection of tanka poems for you) contains a piece by Tatsuya Kinoshita, who wrote it in response ...

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 ...