Haiku is one of the world's oldest regularly written forms of poetry and its own specific form had existed for over four hundred years. Even it’s roots stretched back nearly another millennium. History of haiku mirrors the Zen ideal that it oftentimes relates to. It has gone through many transformations, developments, and revisions. The Japanese have created and transformed a major part of poetry that is still used around the world today.
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