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 are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats