“I tilt the bottle/ wanting to trap/ the sparkling fireworks/ inside the glass marble of/ my 'ramune' soda.” Minami Towada, a junior high school first-year student, composed this tanka, beautifully ...
Welcome to a poetic exploration of restaurant cuisine! We are about to describe delicious dishes in a unique style called tanka poems. Think of it as a journey through food, where we use words to ...
Food and poetry have a close relationship because both involve creativity and sensory experiences. Poets often use food to evoke emotions, memories, and vivid imagery in their poems. Food can ...
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 ...
Striking a match / momentarily / I see the foggy ocean – / is there a motherland / I can dedicate myself to? [ The translation of above quote is by Ms. Kozue Uzawa and Ms. Amelia Fielden cited from ...
"Even major nuclear powers/ Have been completely flustered/ By an enemy as small as 0.1 micron." Tanka poems composed by Dokuho Okada, a Buddhist monk in Mihara, Hiroshima Prefecture, had a grain of ...
The classic Japanese poetry of a professor at the University of Guam’s School of Education has been published by JustFiction Edition. Winter Woods: My Journey into Tanka by Yukiko Inoue-Smith, ...
Dr. Yukiko Inoue-Smith, a professor of educational psychology and research at the University of Guam School of Education, has released a new poetry book, The Inescapable Seasons of Life – Expressing ...