haiku

very short form of Japanese poetry
Thing poetry_genre Q37707
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haiku

Summary

haiku is a poetry genre[1]. haiku ranks in the top 3% of poetry_genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,008 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • haiku's instance of is recorded as poetry genre[3].
  • haiku's instance of is recorded as poetic form[4].
  • haiku followed haikai[5].
  • haiku is a type of poem[6].
  • haiku is a type of Japanese poetry[7].
  • haiku is a type of modern and contemporary Japanese literature[8].
  • haiku's Commons category is recorded as Haiku (poetry)[9].
  • haiku's country of origin is recorded as Japan[10].
  • haiku's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Haiku[11].
  • haiku's described by source is recorded as Basque Literature Terms Dictionary[12].
  • haiku's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'ja', 'text': '俳句'}[13].
  • haiku's different from is recorded as poem[14].
  • haiku's different from is recorded as hokku[15].
  • haiku's different from is recorded as Hayko[16].
  • haiku's different from is recorded as Haiku[17].
  • haiku's practiced by is recorded as haiku poet[18].
  • haiku's significant person is recorded as Masaoka Shiki[19].
  • haiku's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[20].

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Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include poetry genre[3] and poetic form[4]. Recorded subclass of include poem[6], Japanese poetry[7], and modern and contemporary Japanese literature[8].

Influence

Things named for haiku include Haiku[21], an Unix-like operating system[22], founded in 2002[23]; Heroku[24], a business[25], in United States[26], founded in 2007[27], headquartered in San Francisco[28]; and 12477 Haiku[29], an asteroid[30].

Why It Matters

haiku ranks in the top 3% of poetry_genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,008 views/month).[2] haiku has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] haiku is known by 38 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Entities named for haiku include Haiku[21], an Unix-like operating system[22], founded in 2002[23]; Heroku[24], a business[25], in United States[26], founded in 2007[27], headquartered in San Francisco[28]; and 12477 Haiku[29], an asteroid[30].

References

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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.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . euskaltzaindia.eus. Retrieved . euskaltzaindia.eus. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [21] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [24] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [29] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [22] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [23] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [25] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [26] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [27] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 14d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Significant person Masaoka Shiki
    Different from poem, hokku, Hayko +1
    Country of origin Japan
    Follows
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 17578, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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