Chōka
Chōka ( Japanese 長 歌 , also nagauta , dt. " Long poem") is a form of poem that consists of more than five verses, at the beginning an irregular, but from the time of Man'yōshū then a regular alternation of five and seven moras possessed per line of verse. The Chōka, which flourished in the 8th and 9th centuries and which went out of use after the Heian period , was usually followed by one or more Hanka ( 反 歌 ). The Chōka can be understood as a special form of the Tanka .
The first Chōka can be found in the Kojiki and Nihongi . The basic form consists of the three-fold repetition of two lines of verse of five and seven moras, which is concluded by a seven-mor line. The meter thus had the following form: 5 - 7 - 5 - 7 -… - 5 - 7 - 7.
literature
- Bruno Lewin (ed.): Small dictionary of Japanese studies . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1981, p. 49, ISBN 3-447-00530-0