Lexicographical Neighbors of Haikai
Literary usage of Haikai
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Japanese Literature by William George Aston (1899)
"In the sixteenth century a kind of poem known as haikai, which consists of seventeen
... The haikai is a Tanka minus the concluding fourteen syllables, ..."
2. Things Japanese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan for by Basil Hall Chamberlain (1905)
"Out of this, at a later date, by the dropping of the second hemistich, grew the
haikai or Hokku, an ultra-Lilliputian class of poem having hut seventeen ..."
3. Japanese Impressions: With a Note on Confucius by Paul Louis Couchoud (1921)
"Until to-day the uta and the haikai have followed parallel ways. ... It is the
journalists who write the haikai. The war with Russia brought forth hundreds ..."
4. Catalogue of Japanese Printed Books and Manuscripts in the Library of the by Robert Kennaway Douglas (1898)
"Ш ft u 'S) ВД în Ä haikai kakku Meiji shiu. ... It ВД fo íí S Ж Ш haikai Meiji shin
... and ^ gg $£ Щ MITSUMORI KAN-Ö. * 0£ ft Ш ЯФ IB haikai saijiki. ..."
5. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1902)
"After some time, it became fashionable to compose " linked verses " in the new
comic or colloquial style, which accordingly received the name of haikai no ..."
6. Poet Lore (1905)
"The haikai is peculiarly suited to whimsical occasional verse and some few of
these have been translated. The following undertakes to express, ..."
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