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TANKA

Here is an example of tanka poetry:
Tagonoura yu uchiidete mireba mashironizo Fujino takaneni yukiwa furikeru.

English translation: 
When I look up at the sky in Tagonoura, I can see the top of Mt. Fuji covered 
with snow.
	  
   This is one of the famous Japanese poems called gTankah which is a 31-
syllable Japanese poem and describes the poet Yamabe-no-Akahitofs 
profound impression that he had when he saw the splendor of Mt. Fuji and 
the beautiful snow upon it. Akahito was a skillful poet in tanka poetry while 
Basho Matsuo was skillfull haiku poetry. Both of them were famous Japanese 
poets and skillful in their own forms of Japanese style poetry.