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Do you know HAIKU?, Japanese culture and most shortest poem, which brings marvelous surprises and emotions.
If you want to learn HAIKU, I can help you very much.
HAIKU was born from HAIKAI, which is longer and bigger than HAIKU.
The strucutre of HAIKU is very simple, it consists of two elements.
1) eight beat * three lines
2) talk about or sing human beings or human society with nature or season
That's all.
The meaning of 1) is,
ZZZ
Z
ZZZ
when is Japanese character and Z is rest. It consists 5-7-5 sturucture.
But I am sorry to say, the another sturucture of 7-7 is present on HAIKU.
Z
Z
The cause of this one is the presence of another elder poem, TANKA or CHOUKA.
The structure of TANKA is just 5-7-5-7-7, then 5-7-5 called KAMINOKU, 7-7 done SHIMONOKU.
Do you know MATSUO BASHOU?, he is most famous HAIKU poet (1644-1694) in Japan.
You will learn HAIKU with measuring his poems, from next week.
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