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HaikuHaiku is a kind of Japanese poetry. It was given this name the late 19th century by Masaoka Shiki. The traditional haiku consisted of 17 moras or on, in three metric phrases of 5, 7, and 5 moras respectively. The Japanese word on, meaning "sound", corresponds to a mora, a phonetic unit similar but not identical to the syllable of a language such as English. A haiku may contain a special season word (the kigo) representative of the season, or a reference to the natural world. |
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