1 Techniques of Haiku
Haiku uses most of techniques from waka and renga but as it became popular, new techniques were invented and old techniques were renamed. These techniques are important as a haiku is a very short form of the poem.
1.1 Honkadori
Honkadori (本歌取り) uses a verse or a word from a famous haiku and uses it to expand a haiku beyond the mere words that consist its words. For an example, from Miwataseba Yamamotokasumu Minasegawa lit. look around, even mountains are shrouded by mists, from Minase river, Yamamotokasumu may be taken and used and a haiku using it would have an image of the Minase river without mentioning it.
1.2 Omission
With only a seventeen syllables, it is essential that superfluous words are omitted. Often, both or either postpositional particles and verbs are omitted after a noun when the status of a noun can be deduced. Other words may be omitted as well if they can be deduced as well. These omissons can increase the impression of a haiku or expand its timeframe.
1.3 Kumatagari
Kumatagari, (句またがり) lit. crossing verses, is a technique of adhering only to the 17 syllables rule and not to the 5, 7, 5 rule. It lets a haiku have a different impression.
1.4 Jiyuritsu Haiku
Jiyuritsu Haiku, (自由律俳句) lit. free verse haiku, throws out all rules of haiku and a haiku would be written as a poet seems fit. Intially, it was seen as nothing more than a poetic slogan or a meaningful sentence but its values were re-evaluated in Heisei period.
2 Famous Poets and Writers
2.1 Edo period
2.2 Meiji period and later
2.3 Non-Japanese
3 See Also
4 External links
Japanese literature
Poetic form
