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Tanka Books
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Keeping Score: Angry Tanka (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.90 — 10 ratings — published
100 Poems from the Japanese (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 1,278 ratings — published 1955
Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka Diary (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tanka)
avg rating 3.91 — 358 ratings — published 2013
Tangled Hair: Selected Tanka from Midaregami (English/Japanese)
by (shelved 2 times as tanka)
avg rating 4.23 — 434 ratings — published 1901
A Long Rainy Season: Haiku and Tanka (Rock Spring Collection of Japanese Literature)
by (shelved 2 times as tanka)
avg rating 4.15 — 55 ratings — published 1994
The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tanka)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,978 ratings — published 1988
Modern Japanese Tanka (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 118 ratings — published 1996
Kevään kukat, syksyn kuu: Kootut tankarunot 1960–1982 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as tanka)
avg rating 4.05 — 43 ratings — published 2000
Fifty Tao Zen Haiku Sedoka Katauta Tanka Poems (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Tanka And Haikai: Japanese Rhythms (Paperback)
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avg rating 2.10 — 10 ratings — published 1916
RIBBONS Spring/Summer 2025: Volume 21, Number 1 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Poets Behind Barbed Wire (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 13 ratings — published 1983
The Seasons Of Time: Tanka Poetry Of Ancient Japan (Library Binding)
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avg rating 3.72 — 18 ratings — published
Sword and Blossom: Poems From the Japanese (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as tanka)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Hallelujah: Haiku, Senryu, Tanka (English and French Edition)
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avg rating 2.50 — 4 ratings — published 2012
Tanka: Poems in Exile (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.44 — 9 ratings — published
Spring's First Caress: Tanka by Brian Zimmer (Paperback)
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avg rating 2.33 — 3 ratings — published 2015
White Letter Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as tanka)
avg rating 2.00 — 3 ratings — published 1998
The Court Poetry of a Golden Age (Japanese Tanka)
by (shelved 1 time as tanka)
avg rating 2.40 — 5 ratings — published 1972
One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
by (shelved 1 time as tanka)
avg rating 4.40 — 5 ratings — published 2003
All the Horses of Heaven (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 2009
Shining Moments: Tanka Poems in English (Hardcover)
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avg rating 1.83 — 6 ratings — published 1993
Book of Tanka: An Anthology of Tanka from the Earliest Times to the Present Day : Selected Translations and Original Poems in English (Salzburg ... Poetic Drama & Poetic Theory, 182)
by (shelved 1 time as tanka)
avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 1997
あなたのための短歌集 (Tankobon Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published
Brain Fever: Poems (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.76 — 95 ratings — published 2014
Walking the Fence: Selected Tanka of Randy Brooks (Paperback)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
The Signature Haiku Anthology: Including Senryu and Tanka (Paperback)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
One Hundred Frogs: From Renga to Haiku to English (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as tanka)
avg rating 3.92 — 49 ratings — published 1995
After Amen: A Memoir in Two Voices (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as tanka)
avg rating 4.80 — 5 ratings — published
मुलुक बाहिर म [Muluk Bahira Ma] (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as tanka)
avg rating 3.76 — 49 ratings — published 2010
Salad Anniversary (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as tanka)
avg rating 4.06 — 628 ratings — published 1987
Moments of Lightness: Haiku & Tanka (Paperback)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Four Decades on My Tanka Road: The Tanka Collections of Sanford Goldstein (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Haiku & Tanka Practice: Insights of a Japanese poet (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published
Japanese Poetry Forms: A Poet's Guide (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.00 — 15 ratings — published
This Short Life: Minimalist Tanka (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.14 — 7 ratings — published 2014
Only Companion: Japanese Poems of Love and Longing (Shambhala Centaur Editions)
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avg rating 4.25 — 97 ratings — published 1996
Cicada Forest: An Anthology of Tanka (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published 2008
The Way of Tanka (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.14 — 21 ratings — published
Maple: Tanka Poems by Japanese Canadians (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published 1969
One Hundred Leaves: A new annotated translation of the Hyakunin Isshu (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as tanka)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,149 ratings — published 1235
Garvey's Choice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 4,917 ratings — published 2016
“Lupasit tulla
luokseni viime yönä.
Se yö on mennyt.
En luota sinuun enää.
Rakastan sinua aina.”
―
luokseni viime yönä.
Se yö on mennyt.
En luota sinuun enää.
Rakastan sinua aina.”
―
“白鳥は
哀しからずや
空の青
海のあをにも
染まずただよふ
Shiratori wa
kanashikarazu ya
Sora no ao
umi no ao ni mo
somazu tadayou
Does not a white bird
Feel within her heart forlorn?
The blue of the sky
The blue of the sea. Neither
Stains her, between them she floats.”
―
哀しからずや
空の青
海のあをにも
染まずただよふ
Shiratori wa
kanashikarazu ya
Sora no ao
umi no ao ni mo
somazu tadayou
Does not a white bird
Feel within her heart forlorn?
The blue of the sky
The blue of the sea. Neither
Stains her, between them she floats.”
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