Students will experience poetry as a form of communication. Students will learn about an ancient poetic tradition of Japan. Students will write tanka poetry in the correct form. What are the poems ...

Thirteen participants re-enacted “Kyokusui no En,” a millennium-old court ceremony, where they composed tanka poems before a floating cup of sake reached them down a stream in the garden.

He served as a judge for the annual “Utakai Hajime,” or the Imperial New Year’s Poetry Reading ceremony, and as a tanka adviser for the imperial family. His grand resume belies his checkered ...