歌か人じん

noun

tanka poet

Specifically a poet who composes tanka (31-syllable Japanese poems). Not a general term for all poets.

• 彼かの女じょは現げん代だいを代だい表ひょうする歌か人じんとして知しられている。

  She is known as a leading contemporary tanka poet.

• 祖そ父ふは若わかい頃ころから歌か人じんとして活かつ動どうしていた。

  My grandfather had been active as a tanka poet since he was young.