[The Winter Sun Shines In -- A Life of Masaoka ... Not only did Shiki appreciate and critique classical haiku and tanka poetry, but he also reformed it into a cultural activity tied closely ...

He served as a judge for the annual “Utakai Hajime,” or the Imperial New Year’s Poetry Reading ceremony, and as a tanka adviser for the imperial family. His grand resume belies his checkered ...

Tanka poems composed by Dokuho Okada, a Buddhist monk in Mihara, Hiroshima Prefecture, had a grain of light-hearted humor in them, even in one about the new coronavirus. Okada died in 2020 at the ...