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A short Japanese poem, usually on a subject in nature.

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  • I'll be publishing pics here as well, as I experiment with haiga, a haikai form I'm not entirely comfortable with yet.
  • Matsuo Basho Was the father of the haikai and the hokku, and his mantle descended upon
  • The most attenuated form of all is the hokku (or haikai) which consists of only three lines, namely, 17 syllables.
  • This now found a substitute in the haikai, which admitted language taken from purely Japanese sources and could thus be produced without any exercise of special scholarship.
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