Tanka is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 37 anagrams from letters in tanka (aaknt).
1915-20; Japanese Middle Chinese, equivalent to Chinese duǎn short + gē song; cf. renga
By dropping the "a" before "tanka" we have changed the name to Big Water.
The real genius is to be found in the tanka, a poem of five lines or phrases and thirty-one syllables.
Some one would utter the first three lines of a tanka and some one else would cap the composition by adding the last two.
Such couplets were called shi to distinguish them from the pure Japanese uta or tanka.
The tiresome habit of enumerating a woman's charms, either briefly or at length, is happily an impossibility in the tanka.
The concluding hemistich, whereby the hokku becomes the tanka, is existent in the writer's mind, but never uttered.
Typical of this kind of painting are the pictures of tanka burning the Image.
Sooner or later this crystallized into what is called a tanka or short ode.
One night tanka, a Zen priest, stayed as a guest at an ordinary Buddhist monastery.