Ryumon is a tanka work by Shizue Toku. Like ripples spreading over water, it can be read as a collection that sets shifts of feeling and memory into fixed form.

A quiet inscription of emotional ripples within fixed poetic form.

Icchokushin is a tanka work by Iwao Okayama. Centered on the straightforward spirit suggested by its title, it condenses life and conviction into fixed poetic language.

A tanka work that entrusts a directness of heart to fixed form.