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When I came to literary arts, japans women take the lead on this topic. Aristocratic Japanese
women were taught read and write in Japanese. One of the first women to write a book was
called Kagero Nicki. Some of these women’s novels were mainly romance and royalty stories.
Some forms of poetry called waka developed in Japan. Tanka is a type of poetry that, has
different format, with a set number of syllables making up each of its five to seven lines. Tanka
was the main poetic form during this period.