Definitions
a Tibetan religious painting on fabric
Word origin
From Japanese 短歌 (tanka, “short song”), from Middle Chinese 短 (MC twanX) 歌 (MC ka) (compare Mandarin 短歌 (duǎngē) duǎngē).
Used in a sentence
“Like haiku, tanka is a short, classical verse form that has attracted considerable attention in this century.”
“One tanka poet who directly influenced Kenji is Ishikawa takuboku, who lineated tanka—an extraordinary break with the tradition of writing tanka in one line.”
“The notion of rhyming in Japanese tanka poetry is applied differently from what we observe in the Western poetry tradition.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Five-line poem”5 letters
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