Editing Tanka (section)

==Etymology==
Originally, in the time of the influential poetry anthology {{Lang|ja-latn|[[Man'yōshū]]}} (latter half of the eighth century AD), the term ''tanka'' was used to distinguish "short poems" from the longer {{nihongo|''chōka''|長歌||"long poems"}}.<ref name=":1" /> In the ninth and tenth centuries, however, notably with the compilation of the ''[[Kokinshū]]'', the short poem became the dominant form of poetry in Japan, and the originally general word {{nihongo|[[waka (poetry)|''waka'']]|和歌||"Japanese poem"}} became the standard name for this form.<ref>Keene, Donald. ''A History of Japanese Literature: Volume 1''. NY: Columbia University Press, 1999. p98, 164. {{ISBN|978-0-231-11441-7}}</ref> Japanese poet and critic [[Masaoka Shiki]] revived the term ''tanka'' in the early twentieth century for his statement that ''waka should be renewed and modernized''.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Masaoka Shiki : his life and works |last=Beichman |first=Janine |date=2002 |publisher=Cheng & Tsui Co |isbn=0887273645 |edition=1st Cheng & Tsui rev. |location=Boston |oclc=49495177 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/masaokashikihisl0000beic }}</ref> ''[[Haiku]]'' is also a term of his invention, used for his revision of standalone [[Hokku]], with the same idea.