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Haiku: A Short Form Poetry from Japan

Haiku is a short form of poetry consisting of three phrases of 5, 7, and 5 phonetic units (called on in Japanese).
It originated in Japan and was traditionally printed as a single line.
Haiku often include a kireji, or "cutting word," and a kigo, or seasonal reference.
Kireji helps mark rhythmic divisions, while kigo symbolizes the season of the poem.
Similar poems that do not adhere to the traditional haiku rules are generally classified as senryū.
Haiku was given its current name by the Japanese writer Masaoka Shiki at the end of the 19th century.
Haiku written by authors worldwide incorporates aspects of the traditional haiku form while having different styles and traditions.
Traditional Japanese haiku masters were not always constrained by the 5-7-5 on pattern.
Kigo are not always included in non-Japanese haiku or by modern writers of Japanese free-form haiku.
The earliest westerner known to have written haiku was the Dutchman Hendrik Doeff in the early 19th century.
R. H. Blyth's works on haiku stimulated the writing of haiku in English.
Haiku has influenced other art forms like haibun and haiga.Haiku Poetry: History and Global Influence
Haiku is a Japanese form of poetry that captures a moment of enlightenment through the unification of the poet's nature and environment.
Harold G. Henderson's book, An Introduction to Haiku, revised in 1958, translated every hokku and haiku into a rhymed tercet (ABA) in English, although Japanese originals never used rhyme.
Haiku was introduced to France by Paul-Louis Couchoud in 1906, and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore composed haiku in Bengali.
In South Asia, Pakistani poet Omer Tarin is active in writing haiku and promoting global nuclear disarmament, and Indian writer Ashitha's haiku poems popularized the genre in Malayalam literature.
Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz translated haiku from Japanese masters and American and Canadian contemporary haiku authors into Polish in 1992, while Herman Van Rompuy, former president of the European Council, published a book of haiku in 2010.
Haiku had a considerable influence on Imagists in the 1910s, notably Ezra Pound's "In a Station of the Metro" of 1913, but there was little understanding of the form and its history at the time.
Yone Noguchi was one of the first advocates of English-language hokku, and Sadakichi Hartmann was publishing original English-language hokku and other Japanese forms in both English and French.
Novelist Richard Wright wrote thousands of haiku between 1959 and 1960, titled Haiku: This Other World, but it was rejected by World Publishing in 1960 and only published in 1998.
Gabriele D'Annunzio and futurists in Italy experimented with haiku in the early twentieth century, and the national haiku association was founded in Rome in 1987.
In Spain, several prominent poets experimented with haiku, including Federico García Lorca, Joan Alcover, Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, and Luis Cernuda.
Haiku poetry began in Yugoslavia during the 1960s, and the first haiku books were written by Dubravko Ivančan in 1964 and Vladimir Devide in 1970.
Haibun is a combination of prose and haiku, often autobiographical or written in the form of a travel journal, and haiga is a style of Japanese painting based on the aesthetics of haikai, usually including a haiku.
Kuhi is the carving of famous haiku on natural stone to make poem monuments, a popular practice for many centuries, and the city of Matsuyama has more than two hundred kuhi.

Haiku: A Short Form Poetry from Japan

Haiku is a short form of poetry consisting of three phrases of 5, 7, and 5 phonetic units (called on in Japanese).
It originated in Japan and was traditionally printed as a single line.
Haiku often include a kireji, or "cutting word," and a kigo, or seasonal reference.
Kireji helps mark rhythmic divisions, while kigo symbolizes the season of the poem.
Similar poems that do not adhere to the traditional haiku rules are generally classified as senryū.
Haiku was given its current name by the Japanese writer Masaoka Shiki at the end of the 19th century.
Haiku written by authors worldwide incorporates aspects of the traditional haiku form while having different styles and traditions.
Traditional Japanese haiku masters were not always constrained by the 5-7-5 on pattern.
Kigo are not always included in non-Japanese haiku or by modern writers of Japanese free-form haiku.
The earliest westerner known to have written haiku was the Dutchman Hendrik Doeff in the early 19th century.
R. H. Blyth's works on haiku stimulated the writing of haiku in English.
Haiku has influenced other art forms like haibun and haiga.Haiku Poetry: History and Global Influence
Haiku is a Japanese form of poetry that captures a moment of enlightenment through the unification of the poet's nature and environment.
Harold G. Henderson's book, An Introduction to Haiku, revised in 1958, translated every hokku and haiku into a rhymed tercet (ABA) in English, although Japanese originals never used rhyme.
Haiku was introduced to France by Paul-Louis Couchoud in 1906, and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore composed haiku in Bengali.
In South Asia, Pakistani poet Omer Tarin is active in writing haiku and promoting global nuclear disarmament, and Indian writer Ashitha's haiku poems popularized the genre in Malayalam literature.
Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz translated haiku from Japanese masters and American and Canadian contemporary haiku authors into Polish in 1992, while Herman Van Rompuy, former president of the European Council, published a book of haiku in 2010.
Haiku had a considerable influence on Imagists in the 1910s, notably Ezra Pound's "In a Station of the Metro" of 1913, but there was little understanding of the form and its history at the time.
Yone Noguchi was one of the first advocates of English-language hokku, and Sadakichi Hartmann was publishing original English-language hokku and other Japanese forms in both English and French.
Novelist Richard Wright wrote thousands of haiku between 1959 and 1960, titled Haiku: This Other World, but it was rejected by World Publishing in 1960 and only published in 1998.
Gabriele D'Annunzio and futurists in Italy experimented with haiku in the early twentieth century, and the national haiku association was founded in Rome in 1987.
In Spain, several prominent poets experimented with haiku, including Federico García Lorca, Joan Alcover, Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, and Luis Cernuda.
Haiku poetry began in Yugoslavia during the 1960s, and the first haiku books were written by Dubravko Ivančan in 1964 and Vladimir Devide in 1970.
Haibun is a combination of prose and haiku, often autobiographical or written in the form of a travel journal, and haiga is a style of Japanese painting based on the aesthetics of haikai, usually including a haiku.
Kuhi is the carving of famous haiku on natural stone to make poem monuments, a popular practice for many centuries, and the city of Matsuyama has more than two hundred kuhi.