The primary function of these " medicine elders " is to secure the help of the spirit world, including the Great Spirit ( Wakan Tanka in the language of the Lakota Sioux ), for the benefit of the entire community.

Tanka is a form of unrhymed Japanese poetry, with five sections totalling 31 onji ( phonological units identical to morae ), structured in a 5-7-5 7 – 7 pattern.

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In the Sioux way of life, Wakan Tanka ( Standard Lakota Orthography: Wakȟáŋ Tȟáŋka ) is the term for " the sacred " or " the divine ".

Wakan Tanka or Wakan is also known as Wakanda in the Omaha-Ponca, Ioway-Otoe-Missouri, Kansa and Osage languages ; and Wakatakeh in Quapaw.

It is known that in the beginning of the Medieval era ( Kamakura age, 1185-1333 AD ) a prince wrote a Tanka to praise this ume grove.

However, in the Assam Valley, West Bengal, Tripura, Mizoram and Orissa the Indian rupee is officially known by names derived from the word टङ ् क ( Tanka ), which means " money ".

Thus, the rupee is called টক া ( tôka ) in Assamese, ট া ক া ( Taka ) in Bengali and ଟଙ ୍ କ ା ( Tanka ) in Oriya.

Henry Fok is of Tanka descent.

A " Thangka ," also known as " Tangka ", " Thanka " or " Tanka " (; ; Nepal Bhasa: प ौ भ ा) is a Tibetan silk painting with embroidery, usually depicting a Buddhist deity, scene, or mandala of some sort.

One is the Tanka people, who speak a dialect of Cantonese, and the other are Hoklo boat people who are of partial Fujian descent.

Tanka is a form of Japanese poetry.

The term Tanka is now considered derogatory and no longer in common use.

The name Tanka itself is a derogatory term, used by Cantonese against the Tanka.

Wolfram Eberhard suggested that he thought that the Yueh are related to the Tanka, and Chinese admixture in the Tanka is due to the Tanka prostitutes serving Chinese, with the Tanka replacing their own culture with Chinese culture, such as the Chinese language.

Currently, in the present day, the Tanka deny that they are not Chinese, claiming they are ordinary Chinese who just happen to fish for a living, and the local dialect is used as their language.

The most widely-held theory is that the Tanka are the descendants of the native Yue inhabitants of Guangdong before the Han Cantonese moved in.

Some researchers say the origin of the Tanka is multifaceted, with a portion of them having native Yueh ancestors and others originating from other sources.

Always there is plenty to see, as the Tanka.

One of her unique traits is the fact that she converses in Tanka poetry.

The Portuguese, often married Tanka women since Han Chinese women would not have relations with them.

The Chinese poet Wu Li wrote a poem, which included a line about the Portuguese in Macau being supplied with fish by the Tanka.

Since the late 1980s especially, prose poetry has gained increasing popularity, with entire journals, such as The Prose Poem: An International Journal, Contemporary Haibun Online and Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose devoted to that genre.

Tanka consist of five units ( often treated as separate lines when romanized or translated ) usually with the following pattern of onji:

The majority of marriages between Portuguese and natives was between Portuguese men and women of Tanka origin, who were considered the lowest class of people in China and had relations with Portuguese settlers and sailors, or low class Chinese women.

These were followed by other serials: Meiji Nijūkunen no Haikukai or " The Haiku World of 1896 " where he praised works by disciples Takahama Kyoshi and Kawahigashi Hekigotō, Haijin Buson or " The Haiku Poet Buson " ( 1896-1897 ) expressing Shiki's idea of this 18th-century poet whom Shiki identifies with his school of haiku, and Utayomi ni Atauru Sho or " Letters to a Tanka Poet " ( 1898 ) where he urged reform of the tanka poetry form.

After some modifications to the design by Alvin Tesch and the addition of a new logo created by Erling Eklof with the Dakota Sioux word " Tanka ", which means " Great " or " Big ", the company began selling metal toys.

* The Wednesday Play-Mr. Mileson ( A Night with Mrs. Da Tanka, 1968 )

The differences between the sea dwelling Tanka and land dwellers were not just based on merely their way of life, Cantonese and Hakka who lived on land fished sometimes for a living, but these land fishermen never mixed or married with the Tanka fishermen, barring the Tanka from celebrations.

In 1962 a typhoon struck the Tanka and Hoklo boats, with hundreds being destroyed.

* Thangka or Tanka, a Tibetan silk painting with embroidery

It has been concluded that the Tanka origin traces back with the native ethnic minorities of southern China who may have taken refuge on the sea and gradually assimilated into Han culture, but Tanka still preserved many of their native cultures that are not found in Han Chinese culture.

The differences between the sea dwelling Tanka and land dwellers were not just based on merely their way of life, Cantonese and Hakka who lived on land fished sometimes for a living, but these land fishermen never mixed or married with the Tanka fishermen, barring the Tanka from celebrations.

Chinese scholars and gazettes described the Tanka as a " Yao " Tribe, with some other sources noting that " Tan " people lived at Lantau, and other sources saying " Yao " people lived there.

The Tanka people from the fishing villages is another group having their own variation of Cantonese.

Tanka were written as early as the Nara period by such poets as Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, at a time when Japan was emerging from a period where much of its poetry followed Chinese form.

Literature in Macau was written about love affairs and marriage between the Tanka women and Portuguese men, like " A-Chan, A Tancareira ", by Henrique de Senna Fernandes.

Bungo grammar and vocabulary are occasionally used in modern Japanese for effect, and fixed form poetries like Haiku and Tanka are still mainly written in this form.

This Tanka poem was written in 749 A. D., and shows some differences from Chinese calligraphy.

Literature in Macau was written about love affairs and marriage between the Tanka women and Portuguese men, like " A-Chan, A Tancareira ", by Henrique de Senna Fernandes.

A famous fictional story which was written in the 1800s depicted western items decorating the rooms of Tanka prostitutes.