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haikai

Japanese verse genre
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haikai

Summary

haikai is a poetry genre[1]. haikai draws 223 Wikipedia views per month (poetry_genre category, ranking #12 of 34).[2]

Key Facts

  • haikai's instance of is recorded as poetry genre[3].
  • haikai was followed by haiku[4].
  • haikai is a type of Japanese poetry[5].
  • haikai is a type of early modern Japanese literature[6].
  • haikai dates from the Edo period[7].

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Definition and Type

haikai's instance of is recorded as poetry genre[3]. Recorded subclass of include Japanese poetry[5] and early modern Japanese literature[6].

Why It Matters

haikai draws 223 Wikipedia views per month (poetry_genre category, ranking #12 of 34).[2] haikai has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8] haikai is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[9]

Related Entities

Ihara Saikaku Kobayashi Issa Matsuo Bashō

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7h ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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    Subclass of → Japanese poetry, early modern Japanese literature
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