Hokku Definition

Origin of Hokku

• Japanese initial stanza (having the form of a haiku) of a traditional Japanese collaborative poem, created by each poet composing a stanza in response to that of the previous poet hotsu to start, give rise to (from Middle Chinese puat) (also the source of Mandarin fā) ku phrase, haiku haiku

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

• Japanese

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