Meaning
短歌 (たんか, tanka) is a JLPT N1 vocabulary word meaning “tanka, 31-syllable Japanese poem”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 12
短歌は日本の伝統的な詩です
Tanka is traditional Japanese poetry.
残りはすべて短歌。
The remainder are all tanka.
そのほとんどが短歌である。
Most of the poems are tanka (thirty-one syllables' poem).
このため、短歌のルネサンスと言われる。
Therefore, it is also referred to as the Tanka Renaissance.
短歌は、五七五七七の五句からなるもの。
Tanka consist of five lines in the pattern 5-7-5-7-7.
安保闘争後、前衛短歌が行き詰まりを見せた。
About the time when the conflict subsided, the avant-garde tanka poetry came to a dead end.‐
長歌2首、旋頭歌6首、短歌18首が伝わる。
Two Choka (long poem), six Sedoka (head-repeated poem), and 18 Tanka (thirty-one syllables' poem) are extant.
現代短歌は前衛短歌から始まったとも言われる。
Some believe that modern tanka poetry has its roots in avant-garde tanka poetry.
所収の短歌にちなみ「やは肌の晶子」と呼ばれた。
She was called 'Yawahada no Akiko' after a poem in the anthology.
短歌の定形は、31文字（みそひともじ）、5句である.
The fixed form of tanka has thirty-one syllables and five lines.
–文語による短歌は歴史的仮名遣い(旧仮名遣い)によって書かれることが原則である.
It is a fundamental rule to use traditional kana orthography (old kana orthography) when composing tanka in the classical literary language.
歌壇は孤立化し、内部（歌人）と外部（新聞短歌・セミナー短歌）の棲み分けが始まった。
Tanka circles soon became isolated and divided into the "insiders" (professional poets) and the "outsiders" (tanka appearing in newspapers and in seminars by amateurs).