漢字 · かんじ
Aule Kanji Pages · Kanji Recog PagesThere remain 691 KLC* kanji needing a literary mnemonic context even after Shiki, Issa, Merwin's Buson and Basho have been scanned.
As I am seeing rapidly diminishing returns, contemporary tanka may not help : but I will try some recent short stories and novella.
Here is the set :
One example is this :
KLC 931,旨,purport (gist) which is Henshall 1312 or Heisig 455 or Kodansha Essential 232 and is a 2-2-4 SKIP code in Halpern or Tuttle 1077 (according to Denshi Jisho on-line.)
* Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course, 2013