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Kireji (切れ字, lit. "cutting word") are a special category of words used in certain types of Japanese traditional poetry. It is regarded as a requirement in traditional haiku, as well as in the hokku, or opening verse, of both classical renga and its derivative renku (haikai no renga).
Jacob Geller (born February 8, 1995) is an American video essayist, critic, and writer known for his analysis of video games and popular culture.Geller's YouTube channel has over 1.2 million subscribers, [2] with videos covering topics like horror, art, frigophobia, thalassophobia, and social justice.
Comparing Kikaku's paired haiku in 'The Rustic Haiku Contest', Bashō remarked of one that "these are artifices within a work of art; too much craft has been expended here". [6] One day, Kikaku composed a haiku, Red dragonfly / break off its wings / Sour cherry. which Bashō changed to, Sour cherry / add wings to it / Red dragonfly;
Fukuda Chiyo-ni (福田 千代尼, 1703 - 2 October 1775) or Kaga no Chiyo (加賀 千代女) was a Japanese poet of the Edo period and a Buddhist nun. [1] She is widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of haiku (then called hokku). Some of Chiyo's most notable works include "The Morning Glory", "Putting up my hair", and "Again the women".
In the late 19th century, Masaoka Shiki (1867–1902) renamed the standalone hokku as "haiku", [2] and the latter term is now generally applied retrospectively to all hokku appearing independently of renku or renga, irrespective of when they were written. [3] The term hokku continues to be used in its original sense, as the opening verse of a ...
Haiku d'Etat, an alternative hip hop group; Haiku Tunnel, an office comedy about the struggle between tempness and permness; Haiku Stairs, a hiking trail on Oahu, Hawaii; Haikou, a city on the island of Hainan in the People's Republic of China
While short poems are most associated with the haiku, the emergence of microblogging sites in the 21st century created a modern venue for epigrammatic verse. Daily haiku journal tinywords was one of the earliest proponents, [ 3 ] publishing haiku via short message service starting in 2000.
The typical length of haiku appearing in the main English-language journals is 10–14 syllables [1] [2] and few have a syllabically symmetrical line arrangement such as 5-7-5 or 3-5-3. Some haiku poets are concerned with their haiku being expressed in one breath [3] [4] [5] and the extent to which their haiku focus on "showing" as opposed to ...