Utamakura is a category of poetic words, often involving place names, that allow for greater allusions and intertextuality across Japanese poems.

"The natural state of man's mind," he recited, quoting a classical Japanese poem, "is delight."

Early Japanese poems feature many references to the female navel.

Wilkes also wrote poetry and hymns and translated many Japanese poems into English.

The plant's name appears in many old Japanese poems.

Japanese poems do not rhyme, and the focus is on the rhythm of syllables.

In addition to her book, she wrote tanka, a Japanese short poem.

He is a figure of Japanese poems with tanka and haiku.

Also, when first contronting the villain, she will say a verse from a Japanese poem.

Eventually, he also started writing poems and tanka (a Japanese poem of thirty-one syllables).