rengan.

Brit.

/ˈrɛŋɡə/, U.S.

/ˈrɛŋɡə/

Forms: 1800s renge (transmission error), 1800s– renga, 1800s– renka.

Origin: A borrowing from Japanese. Etymon: Japanese renga.

Etymology: < Japanese renga linked verse (1022 or earlier) < ren- group, accompaniment, set of things lined up or linked together ( < Middle Chinese) + -ga , rare variant of -ka song, poem, poetry ( < Middle Chinese). Compare tanka n.²

A Japanese form of poetry, usually written collaboratively, typically with poets taking turns to compose alternating stanzas of three lines (with five, seven, and five syllables) and two (both with seven syllables); a poem written in, or in imitation of, this form.The number of stanzas can vary considerably, although 100 is standard. The opening stanza of a renga, called the hokku, is the origin of the modern haiku. See haiku n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > lyric poem > [noun] > lyric of fixed verse form > Japanese

renga1855

uta1855

tanka1877

haiku1899

waka1932

senryu1938

1855 R. Hildreth Japan as it was & Is App. 550 The poems called renga..may extend to a hundred or a thousand verses, each verse dependent..upon that which immediately precedes it, or at least upon some word in it.

1890 B. H. Chamberlain Things Japanese 272 A favourite game at these tournaments called renge [1891 renga], wherein one person composes the second hemistich of a verse and another person has to provide it with a first hemistich, seems to date from the eleventh century.

1911 B. H. Chamberlain Japanese Poetry iv. 159 This was termed Renga, lit. ‘linked verses’.

1968 E. Miner Introd. Japanese Court Poetry 163 Renga... A form dating from about the thirteenth century; several authors would compose a sequence, usually of a hundred sections or stanzas, alternating 5, 7, 5 syllable lines with 7, 7 syllable units, any two of which formed a complete poem.

1972 C. Tomlinson tr. C. Roy in Renga (1979) 9 Once the fixed time of their ‘cloistering’ had run out, the four western hermits [sc. Paz, Roubaud, Sanguineti, and Tomlinson] climbed back into daylight with the promised harvest: the first European renga had been born in Paris.

1987 Writer's Digest May 50/2 Quarterly. Accepts haiku or tanka. No renga or prose.

1998 Nature 11 June 511/3 Japanese renga bears a resemblance to the process of scientific co-authorship, as it has collegial and competitive aspects.

Compounds

General attributive.

ΚΠ

1918 Herald of Asia 27 July 534/1 An able administrator, a devoted Buddhist, a patron of Confucian scholars, and a writer of renga and haikai verses.

1947 H. E. Wedeck Mortal Hunger xviii. 253 Then O-Kuni, now learned and a poetess in the renga style, taught poetry in Kizuki.

1973 H. P. Varley Japanese Culture v. 86 Linked verse was elevated to the status of a recognized art by the courtier Nijō Yoshimoto,..who in 1356 compiled the first imperially authorized renga anthology.

1988 E. Miner et al. Princeton Compan. Class. Japanese Lit. 237/1 He had earned this highest honor for a renga poet by demonstrating classical learning as much as by his renga poetry.

2016 H. Jonsson Reading Japanese Haikai Poetry iv. 141 Ninagawa..was skilful in both renga poetry and painting.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	renga
释义	rengan. Brit. /ˈrɛŋɡə/, U.S. /ˈrɛŋɡə/ Forms: 1800s renge (transmission error), 1800s– renga, 1800s– renka. Origin: A borrowing from Japanese. Etymon: Japanese renga. Etymology: < Japanese renga linked verse (1022 or earlier) < ren- group, accompaniment, set of things lined up or linked together ( < Middle Chinese) + -ga , rare variant of -ka song, poem, poetry ( < Middle Chinese). Compare tanka n.² A Japanese form of poetry, usually written collaboratively, typically with poets taking turns to compose alternating stanzas of three lines (with five, seven, and five syllables) and two (both with seven syllables); a poem written in, or in imitation of, this form.The number of stanzas can vary considerably, although 100 is standard. The opening stanza of a renga, called the hokku, is the origin of the modern haiku. See haiku n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > lyric poem > [noun] > lyric of fixed verse form > Japanese renga1855 uta1855 tanka1877 haiku1899 waka1932 senryu1938 1855 R. Hildreth Japan as it was & Is App. 550 The poems called renga..may extend to a hundred or a thousand verses, each verse dependent..upon that which immediately precedes it, or at least upon some word in it. 1890 B. H. Chamberlain Things Japanese 272 A favourite game at these tournaments called renge [1891 renga], wherein one person composes the second hemistich of a verse and another person has to provide it with a first hemistich, seems to date from the eleventh century. 1911 B. H. Chamberlain Japanese Poetry iv. 159 This was termed Renga, lit. ‘linked verses’. 1968 E. Miner Introd. Japanese Court Poetry 163 Renga... A form dating from about the thirteenth century; several authors would compose a sequence, usually of a hundred sections or stanzas, alternating 5, 7, 5 syllable lines with 7, 7 syllable units, any two of which formed a complete poem. 1972 C. Tomlinson tr. C. Roy in Renga (1979) 9 Once the fixed time of their ‘cloistering’ had run out, the four western hermits [sc. Paz, Roubaud, Sanguineti, and Tomlinson] climbed back into daylight with the promised harvest: the first European renga had been born in Paris. 1987 Writer's Digest May 50/2 Quarterly. Accepts haiku or tanka. No renga or prose. 1998 Nature 11 June 511/3 Japanese renga bears a resemblance to the process of scientific co-authorship, as it has collegial and competitive aspects. Compounds General attributive. ΚΠ 1918 Herald of Asia 27 July 534/1 An able administrator, a devoted Buddhist, a patron of Confucian scholars, and a writer of renga and haikai verses. 1947 H. E. Wedeck Mortal Hunger xviii. 253 Then O-Kuni, now learned and a poetess in the renga style, taught poetry in Kizuki. 1973 H. P. Varley Japanese Culture v. 86 Linked verse was elevated to the status of a recognized art by the courtier Nijō Yoshimoto,..who in 1356 compiled the first imperially authorized renga anthology. 1988 E. Miner et al. Princeton Compan. Class. Japanese Lit. 237/1 He had earned this highest honor for a renga poet by demonstrating classical learning as much as by his renga poetry. 2016 H. Jonsson Reading Japanese Haikai Poetry iv. 141 Ninagawa..was skilful in both renga poetry and painting. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1855
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