Haiku definition:
A speck of dust sitting on a cloudless mirror would strike the eye, we’d wish the world were
- Saigyo (118.1190)
A spectacle of a self pausing simultaneously separating into several entities
- Shigenobu
5-7-5 lineated
- English speakers
Exaggerated perspective
- Issa, probably
the essence of the haiku spirit’ as kaigaku or ‘humour’, ‘banter’, ‘witticism’, and placed ultimate importance on a vulgar (hizoku), lofty (coma), ‘making fun of something or someone’ (chakasu) act’, adding that ‘the superior function of chakasu applies to one’s own state where one can turn oneself and others into a void’
- Nagata Koi
‘shasei’ (copying what is observed) (think western painterly influence-realism
- Masaoka Shiki
or RENGA (Poetic form which alternates 5-7-5 and 7-7 syllable verses up to fifty times, to a total of 100 verse units, normally composed by two or more persons, occasional; literary game. Relies on disjunctive linking): any two consecutive links or stanzas must make sense, but three may not) HAD HOKKU (Opening verse of Renga that eventually became haiku (independent)- 5-7-5 syllable, classically necessitating a toki(seasonal reference) and toza(occasional reference) requirement, Usually assigned to guest of honour or highest ranked amongst the poets assembled) WHICH BECAME HAIKU (written in a single line traditionally, broken into three lines in the western tradition/in modern avant-garde haiku).