# Japanese poetry for beginners

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**Created:** [August 20, 2020, 11:22am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/japanese-poetry-for-beginners/45499 "2020-08-20T11:22:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 7:25pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/japanese-poetry-for-beginners/45499/2 "2020-08-20T19:25:24Z")

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If you’re into poetry, you might be interested to hear that we’re currently reading a book about a hundred poems that are taught in Japanese schools, and we take turns in analyzing them:

> [@@Belthazar’s poem research club for the betterment of everyone’s education: reading マンガ✖くり返しでスイスイ覚えられる百人一首](https://community.wanikani.com/t/x/44480):
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> Goal: This thread aims to read マンガ✖くり返しでスイスイ覚えられる百人一首 and provide historical background for the poems of the 百人一首. Official starting date: July 18th From that point on, we will discuss 5 poems a week, but feel free to read or discuss before the official start. Organization: Each week, the OP is updated with a link jumping to the start of the current conversation The thread is used to ask questions about the content of the book (like a regular book club) as well as the history, background of…

(Those are old poems, though. You have been warned 😁)

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