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The 22 pages that link to Haiku, each with the reason it gives.

• PoetryBroader topic: Haiku demonstrates how brevity and juxtaposition can carry poetic force.

• Lyric poetryBroader topic: Haiku demonstrates how lyric attention can be compressed into a brief observation.

• Japanese literatureBroader topic: Its compressed imagery became one of Japanese literature’s best-known poetic forms.

• SyllableRelated: English-language haiku often use syllable counts to shape their lines.

• WakaCompared with: Haiku is shorter and historically distinct from the thirty-one-mora tanka form.

• Matsuo BashōNarrower topic: Bashō’s hokku helped establish the poetic art later known as haiku.

• Japanese poetryBroader topic: It is the best-known compact form built around seasonal reference and a cut.

• TankaCompared with: Haiku stops after the opening three-part pattern that tanka extends with two more lines.

• AphorismCompared with: Haiku is brief and memorable like an aphorism, but it is a poetic form rather than a general statement.

• Poetic formBroader topic: Haiku demonstrates how brevity and line arrangement can define a form.

• KigoNarrower topic: Kigo is a defining convention of traditional haiku, though not every haiku uses one.

• Masaoka ShikiNarrower topic: Shiki treated haiku as an independent literary form and helped establish its modern name.

• HaikaiBroader topic: Haiku emerged when haikai’s hokku became an independent poem.

• YūgenRelated: Haiku can evoke yūgen through concise images that leave their implications open.

• Yosa BusonBroader topic: Buson’s haiku are among his best-known works.

• Oku no HosomichiRelated: The travelogue’s poems condense encounters along the route into brief images.

• The Narrow Road to the Deep NorthNarrower topic: Its poems punctuate the diary’s prose and compress particular moments into seasonal images.

• Kobayashi IssaNarrower topic: Issa wrote within this form, adapting its conventions to intimate scenes and everyday speech.

• Amy LowellRelated: Lowell’s translations and adaptations helped introduce Japanese poetry to English-language audiences.

• Tomas TranströmerRelated: Tranströmer adapted haiku’s compression in later poems, often using it to sharpen images of nature.

• Gary SnyderRelated: Snyder’s translations and poems draw on haiku’s compressed attention to nature and moment.

• Kaga no ChiyoNarrower topic: This is the form through which Chiyo-ni is chiefly known.