俳句|はいくhaiku[0]heiban (flat)
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- nounhaiku; 17-mora poem, usu. in 3 lines of 5, 7 and 5 morae
- Synonym発句ほっくWritten発句(ほっく) is a literary term; it originally referred to the opening stanza of a renga sequence and survives mainly in historical or scholarly writing about haiku.
Use 俳句 for the poem in all ordinary contexts; reserve 発句 for literary, historical, or technical discussion, since it originally denoted the opening stanza of linked verse.
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