Abstrakt
The study focuses on the analysis of 2400 of salaryman senryū (poems about Japanese office workers) published between 1990-2013 on the website of The Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company, Ltd., the third-largest life insurer in Japan. The study examines "salaryman senryū" poems as an original phenomenon of people's poetry, focusing especially on interrelation of tradition and innovation in the poems.