Associations to the word «Waka»

Wiktionary

WAKA, noun. (poetry) A kind of classical Japanese poem.
WAKA, noun. A Maori canoe.
WAKA GASHIRA, noun. Middle man in practice right under the Yakuza clan leader, the oyabun. The waka gashira sees to it that the oyabun's orders are carried out correctly by the wakashu.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne