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Renga vs Tanka - What's the difference?

renga | tanka |

As nouns the difference between renga and tanka

is that renga is a form of Japanese verse in which short poems are connected together. Encompasses haikai, the origination point for haiku while tanka is a form of Japanese verse in five lines of 5,7,5,7,7 morae.

renga

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • a form of Japanese verse in which short poems are connected together. Encompasses haikai, the origination point for haiku.

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    tanka

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) , from (etyl) (''ka'' "song") (compare (etyl) ''du?ng? ??).

    Noun

  • a form of Japanese verse in five lines of 5,7,5,7,7 morae

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

  • a strong, forceful expression
  • a Tibetan painting of the Buddha on fabric.

    • Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A kind of boat used in Canton, about 25 feet long and often rowed by women.
    • Synonyms
    * tankia

    Etymology 4

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A coin and unit of currency of varying value, formerly used in parts of India and Central Asia.
  • *1994 , Stephen Frederic Dale, Indian Merchants and Eurasian Trade, 1600-1750 , p. 29:
  • *:In Uzbek Turan Shah Rukh's tanka remained the standard silver coin and weighed an average of slightly more than 5 g throughout the sixteenth century.
  • *1997 , (Kiran Nagarkar), Cuckold , HarperCollins 2013, p. 42:
  • *:The last of the gifts was fifteen horses with velvet and jewelled trappings and one hundred thousand tankas in cash.
  • *2011 , Najaf Haider, in Irfan Habib (Ed.), Economic History of Medieval India, 1200-1500 , Vol. VIII part 1, p. 152:
  • *:A major shift in the usage of silver and billion coinage came about in the second quarter of the fourteenth century when Mu?ammad Tughluq, after striking the ?anka''''' of 169.8 grains in the beginning, replaced it with a coin of lower weight (144 grains) called ''‘adli'', which was then treated as the standard '''''?anka .

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