Tanka is a traditional poem that has been created form more than 1300 years ago.It consists of 31 syllables. I have been practiced 20 years.It is good way to make a record of the each moment of my life just like a journal.The calligraphy shows “Flagrance of Daphne sneaked into the train named Ubasute while its brief stop at night”. On the way back home, I was a little tired but when I noticed the flagrance, I felt relief.At the occasion of a tea ceremony, you might be asked to create a tanka poem an ad lib.