A U.S. researcher of Japanese literature has published two books of “waka” poems composed by the emperor and empress of the ...

Introduced from China around 1,500 years ago, plums were already cherished as ornamental trees in the Nara period (710–794) appearing in many classic waka poems. By the Kamakura period (1185 ...

Translated by Yone Noguchi, this wistful waka poem encompasses the fragile beauty of lost love. The simplicity and precision of short Japanese poems, and their ability to convey so much in so few ...

With the waka paddling, poetry and kapa haka, there are critical meetings with influential leaders that happen on the ...

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Waka poetry was developed by the court aristocracy in ancient Japan. A "tanka" poem, the most common form of waka, consists of 31 syllables in a pattern of 5-7-5-7-7.

The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards are the premier literary honours for books written by New Zealanders.