This form has been considered to best naturally suit the breathing rhythms of the Japanese people, and express the gamut of feeling and the delicate shades of meaning. This simple construction unbelievably contains the realm of the poets and suggests feelings beyond the words. You will surely ask someone for his or her impressions and comments of your work, and soon find the joy of appreciating poems of others. Do comment on their works, and listen carefully to their opinions on your pieces.
Participants send one or two original works beforehand to be prepared on paper.
For about four hours, copies of the paper are distributed among participants at the gathering to freely talk over our comments and impressions of the poems. It is often at these parties that we find new angles of comprehending and discovering unknown charms of Tanka rhymes. We sometimes face the inability to enjoy the beauty of poems admired by others. But still, these are pleasant occasions to exchange opinions about art as well as to deepen the understanding of ideas, expressed or unexpressed. We always welcome everybody from amateur level to professional standards.