About Tanaka and Haiku, please see Wikipedia
Hakutyou ha kanasikarazuya sorano oumi no aonimo
somarazu tadayohu
( Tanka by Wakayama bokusui)
The white seagull
Is it not saddening
It the blue of sky
Or the blue of the sea?
Translation by Donald Lawrence Keen
Of all the nations of the
world ,only China has a longer continuous literary history than Japan.
In the category of this
Japanese literature has a Japanese phrase of 31 syllables Tanka and a phrase of 17
syllables Haiku.
A certain person checked the
kind of the wild bird and the described number of times in a tanka, a haiku
from the Muromachi era （from
in1336)to the present era.
According to it, it was 35
kinds of wild birds and 176 poem in 6,186 poems.
About swan merely performs one.
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