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Waka (和歌 literally Japanese poem) is a type of poetry in classical Japanese literature. Waka are composed in Japanese and are contrasted with poetry composed by Japanese poets in Classical Chinese which are known as kanshi. Although waka in modern Japanese is written as 和歌 in the past it was also written as 倭歌 (see Wa (Japan)) and a variant name is yamato-uta (大和歌).
