What is the thing they're writing the poems on called?

Aug 17, 2021 11:47 AM

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I'm absolutely losing my marbles trying to find the name of the thing they write the poems on. Every time I google "what are haiku or senryuu written on?" it just throws me 387,000 results on "how to write a haiku." I can't find the damn name anywhere.

Google reverse image search? Nope, it's just a "woodcarving implement." "Haiku canvas" returns a million and one Etsy pages of people painting a haiku on a normal canvas. "Senryuu paper thing" -- nothing. I even googled the history of Japanese paper for a lead, and still couldn't find it.

I was going to flip through the series again to see if they ever bring it up, but it's a bit time consuming. Anyone happen to know off the dome what the canvases are called?

Please save my sanity. Thanks.

Aug 17, 2021 12:23 PM

jskaloney

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Sep 2019

My research has borne fruit. To save the rest of you curious fellows from your plight, here is some information:

As far as I can tell, it's called tanzaku shikishi which combines tankzaku (a strip of paper used during tanabata) and shikishi ("a specially prepared square paper affixed to a hard backing") to result in something like this.

Googling "tanzaku shikishi" and "long shikishi" gives the same result, and its as close to the canvas used in the show as I can find. On the website I linked, they clock in at about $3 a piece, so I guess the MC spends around $3 every time she talks.

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