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Definition of Hokku
1. haiku [n HOKKU] - See also: haiku
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hokku
Literary usage of Hokku
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Primitive & Mediaeval Japanese Texts by Frederick Victor Dickins (1906)
"hokku. hokku or haikai are half-stanzas (tanka) the initial tercet of a complete
quintain, consisting of seventeen syllables arranged in three lines, ..."
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. American Poetry, 1922: A Miscellany by Conrad Aiken (1922)
"... TWENTY-FOUR hokku ON A MODERN THEME AGAIN the larkspur, Heavenly blue in my
garden. They, at least, unchanged. II How have I hurt you? ..."
4. Poetry by Modern Poetry Association (1916)
"Nor is the effect of the Japanese hokku at all similar to that of the epigram as
commonly conceived, which, like the serpent with its tail in its mouth, ..."
5. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1902)
"Thus did it happen that though the word hokku properly means " initial stanza
... comic linked verses," the two terms hokku and Haikai have practically run ..."
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