Currently, schools nation-wide have been participating in this event, and it is a form of education taught through tanka and it attempts to have students get in touch with the sensitivities of the modern-day people through tanka compositions.
現在では全国各地の学校がこのイベントへ参加しており、短歌を通じた教育ならびに現代の学生が短歌を詠むことで現代人の感性を知ろうというひとつの試みとなっている。