Gogyōka
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, or Gogyohka, is a form of Japanese poetry
pioneered by Enta Kusakabe in 1957 in his quest to find freedom from the constraints of tanka
poetry. Unlike tanka, gogyōka does not have any syllable requirement for the length of its lines. The only hardfast rule of gogyōka is that the poem should be five lines long, with line breaks occurring as a result of natural breath-pattern, which is individual to a particular speaker and their language. Gogyōka have been written in French, Chinese, Arabic, Tagalog, and Korean, as well as Japanese and English.
Japanese poetry
Japanese poets first encountered Chinese poetry during the Tang Dynasty. It took them several hundred years to digest the foreign impact, make it a part of their culture and merge it with their literary tradition in their mother tongue, and begin to develop the diversity of their native poetry. For...
pioneered by Enta Kusakabe in 1957 in his quest to find freedom from the constraints of tanka
Waka (poetry)
Waka or Yamato uta is a genre of classical Japanese verse and one of the major genres of Japanese literature...
poetry. Unlike tanka, gogyōka does not have any syllable requirement for the length of its lines. The only hardfast rule of gogyōka is that the poem should be five lines long, with line breaks occurring as a result of natural breath-pattern, which is individual to a particular speaker and their language. Gogyōka have been written in French, Chinese, Arabic, Tagalog, and Korean, as well as Japanese and English.
Examples
Gogyōshi
is a development of gogyōka, wherein the rule that line breaks are governed by breath is discarded.External links
- Gogyohka Junction poetry forum
- About Gogyohka (5-Line Poetry) at 5gyohka.com
- Atlas Poetica A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka. Publishes tanka, kyōka and gogyōshi in English and other languages.