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The Bridge from Tang China to Japan
Japanese short poetry born from Chinese verse. Three lines, seventeen syllables — saying everything with almost nothing.
Haiku is a short Japanese poetic form shaped by image, season, and silence. This page is a starting point for haiku examples, writing guides, love haiku, and short-form poetry resources.
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Before Basho refined haiku into seventeen syllables of Zen wisdom, the form was shaped by Tang...