Haiku

Some Japanese traditions include the tea ceremony (sado), flower arranging (ikebana), wearing kimonos, celebrating festivals like hanami (cherry blossom viewing) and Obon (ancestor remembrance), and practicing martial arts like judo and karate. Additionally, Japanese people often greet each other with a bow as a sign of respect.

I'm not sure what you mean by "hakiu." "Haiku" is a form of Japanese poetry traditionally consisting of three lines with a 5-7-5 syllable pattern. If you have a specific question or context you can provide, I'd be happy to help further.

The Japanese symbols for haiku can be written in hiragana or katakana characters as 俳句. These characters represent the traditional Japanese form of poetry that consists of 17 syllables in a 5-7-5 pattern.

A traditional Haiku poem consists of three lines with a 5-7-5 syllable structure, totaling 17 syllables. The poem typically focuses on nature, seasons, or a fleeting moment, capturing a vivid image or emotion. It often includes a juxtaposition or contrast between different elements.

It is a true statement that a Haiku is a type of Japanese poem. The Haiku originated in Japan in the 9th century.

Haiku poems traditionally consist of three, unrhymed lines.

The first line contains five syllables.

The second contains seven syllables.

The third contains five syllables.

The total number of syllables is seventeen.

The word 'champion' when translated from English to Japanese is チャンピオン (champion).

To start a haiku you need a topic. Then you express that topic through three lines. the first line is five syllables the second, seven and the third, five. If you can't express your topic in three lines, you can write multiple haiku, or a cinquain. A cinquain is five lines the syllables in each line being two, four, six, eight, and then two.

Haiku are Japanese poems (5-7-5) and has a season term or about a season.

These are in 3 lines.

First line : 5 syllables

Second line : 7 syllables

Third Line : 5 syllables

A spring haiku would be a Haiku about/with a spring term in it.

Example:

開いたる scent of the opened letter

文のかほるや　 plum blossoms　　　(Spring time has Plum Blossoms in Japan)

窓の梅 by the window

In the night's embrace, whispers of the wind softly, secrets dance and fade.

1. Softly falling snow, Whispers of winter's embrace, Nature's quiet hush.

2. Cherry blossoms bloom, Petals dance upon the breeze, Spring's fleeting beauty.

3. Sun sets on the sea, Colors paint the evening sky, Peaceful twilight falls.

4. Morning dew glistens, Awakening the world's heart, New day full of hope.

5. Autumn leaves flutter, Crimson, gold, and amber hues, Nature's fiery dance.

6. Crickets chirp at night, Moonlight bathes the earth in peace, Dreams drift on the wind.

7. Ripples on the pond, Whispers of a passing breeze, Nature's gentle touch.

8. Sparrows sing at dawn, Melodies of morning light, Joyful songs of life.

9. Mountain’s ancient peak, Silent guardian of the land, Whispers of the past.

10. Falling raindrops soft, Nature's tears from darkened skies, Life springs forth anew.

Chaos came to be.

Next Erebus, born of light

And the darkness, Nyx.

3 lines. The first with 5 syllables,the second with 7 and the last with 5 syllables.

On the web, alone.

A million voices call out -

I am a pixel.

The Japanese haiku was given that name in the early 19th century. But the form itself, formerly called hokku,is derived from the opening stanza of a longer Japanese poem form called regna or renku and was appearing alone as early as the 17th century

A traditional haiku in Japanese consists of 17 on, which are phonetic sound units, not syllables. In English haiku, the 17 syllable rule is a convention to help capture the brevity and essence of the form while reflecting the structure of a traditional haiku.

1. Choose a season or natural element as your theme.
2. Write three lines with a 5-7-5 syllable pattern.
3. Use sensory language to create a vivid image or feeling.
4. Consider a juxtaposition or surprise element in the poem.

Here is a page of kid's haiku for halloween. They each have 17 syllables. http://longwood.cs.ucf.edu/~MidLink/haikus.html

A limerick has five lines and is usually funny:

There once was a man from Peru,

Who dreamed he was eating his shoe.

He awoke with a fright,

In the middle of the night,

To find that his dream had come true.

"Today it may be possible to describe haiku but not to define it."

Hiroaki Sato: Author; Columnist; and Editor of "One Hundred Frogs: From Matsuo Basho to Allen Ginsberg"

"There are as many descriptions of haiku as there are stars in the night sky: this is mine."

Alan Summers - Recipient, Japan Times Award for haiku

An English-language haiku is often written in three short lines and read out loud in about six seconds.

They're written in the present tense, in ordinary language, and work well as two different images that spark off each other.

It's good to include one or more senses such as sound, smell, taste or touch, and not just what we can see.

Haiku don't tell, or merely describe, they allow the reader to enter the poem in their own way.

Haiku are ideal for non-fiction observations as a kind of short-hand for remembering events or incidents.

They can be therapeutic and they exercise both the right and the left side of the brain.

Traditionally haiku are rooted in natural history and the seasons, and make us co-conspirators with wildlife, as nature half-writes the haiku before we've even put pen to paper.

Haiku have a seasonal clue called kigo in Japanese. Obvious season words are snow for winter; and heatwave for summer; but you could use less obvious kigo like beer for summer, and Orion or Orion's Belt for winter.

Try out the haiku fieldbook and become a co-poet with nature or check out the other choices of workshops.

Where does haiku come from?

Haiku comes from a "first verse" called hokku; they often look incomplete as they originate from a linked verse poem where the first verse was finished by the second verse. They have a special place in the multi-poet-multi-linking-verse-poem known as renga, or renku, that enjoyed a renaissance in 17th Century Japan; and people started collecting them as not all the composed hokku on the day could be chosen to start off the renga.

Then Japanese writers began to adapt foreign literary techniques in poetry as Japan was opened up to the West. Journalist, writer, and poet Masaoka Shiki took full advantage when he officially made hokku an independent poem in the 1890s called haiku (singular and plural spelling) and brought haiku into the 20th Century.

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Traditional haiku must follow a pattern, 5-7-5 (five syllables in the first line, seven in the second line and five in the last line with a total of 17 syllables). In freestyle, there is no set amount of syllables. The idea there is to catch the spirit rather than the form of the original Japanese art form.

A traditional haiku consists of three lines with a syllable pattern of 5-7-5. This means the first line has 5 syllables, the second line has 7 syllables, and the third line has 5 syllables.