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▪ I. ‖ waka1 N.Z.|ˈwaka|
Also 9 walker, wauka.
[Maori.]
A Maori canoe (see quots.).
1807J. Savage Some Acct. N.Z. xi. 77 Wauka, a canoe. 1834E. Markham N.Z. or Recoll. of It (MS.) 3 Canoes, or in the Native Mourie Tongue, Walker Mouries, or Native boats. 1841J. C. Bidwill Rambles in N.Z. (1952) 61 Those [Canoes] with topsides..are called Wa-kaw, or in common pronunciation ‘Walkers’. 1845R. Taylor Jrnl. 19 June (MS.) III. 222 We had a large waka which just held our large party. 1874W. M. Baines Narr. E. Crewe 81 ‘Whaka’ is the native name, or rather the native generic term, for all canoes, of which there are many different kinds, as tete, pekatu, kapapa and others. 1921H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira x. 73 A miniature waka or canoe..was moved..from place to place. 1936Discovery Jan. 13/2 A Moriori Waka or fishing boat. 1949P. H. Buck Coming of Maori (1950) ii. vii. 203 River canoes (waka tiwai), also used on inland lakes, consisted merely of the dug-out hull. Seagoing canoes (waka tete)..were larger.
▪ II. ‖ waka2|ˈwaka|
[Jap.]
1. A form of classic Japanese poetry, lyrical in nature and developed from the ancient traditional ballads.
[1880B. H. Chamberlain Classical Poetry of Japanese p. vi, Kokiñ Wa-Ka Shifu Uchi-Giki (‘Memoranda Concerning the Collection of Japanese Odes Ancient and Modern’), by Kamo-no-Mabuchi.] 1932B. L. Suzuki Nōgaku 24 The forms sung in the Nō are the shidai,..rongi, waka, and kiri. 1948Introd. Class Jap. Lit. p. iv, In the sphere of waka poetry also, the Kokinshû anthology..shows the transition from ‘sincerity’ to ‘sentimentality’. 1968Encycl. Brit. XII. 953/2 The poetic form used—the waka, deriving from the earlier folk songs—consists of an alternation of five- and seven-syllable lines, without rhyme, stress, metrical pattern or other technical device.
2. A Japanese poem of thirty-one syllables, a tanka.
1938D. T. Suzuki Zen Buddhism i. iv. 95 The secret documents also contain a number of waka, versified epigrams, in regard to the mastery of swordsmanship. 1956D. Keene Anthol. Jap. Lit. 25 His waka—thirty-one syllabled poems—are among the most beautiful and melancholy in the language. 1977Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Apr. 448/4 The most striking qualities of the haiku and the waka. |