This site will be taken down March 31st, 2026.

This was not an easy decision to make. For the last couple years, I have been struggling to find motivation for this site and to keep up with basic maintenance and security updates. With the rise of AI and more sophisticated tools, the usefulness of sites like this is questionable and traffic has nose-dived. I just don't have it in me to keep doing this. Thank you all for 10 years of support!

Zach

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section (i.e. of text); sentence; passage; paragraph; phrase; verse (of 5 or 7 mora in Japanese poetry; of 4, 5, or 7 characters in Chinese poetry); haiku; first 17 morae of a renga, etc.; maxim; saying; idiom; expression
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俳句

はいく
haiku; 17-mora poem, usu. in 3 lines of 5, 7 and 5 morae
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文句

もんく
complaint; grumbling; objection; phrase; words; expression
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揚げ句

揚句、挙げ句、挙句
あげく
in the end (after a long process); finally; after all; at last; last line (of a renga)
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句集

くしゅう
collection of haiku poems
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高句麗

こうくり
Goguryeo (ancient Korean kingdom)
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語句

ごく
words; phrases
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句碑

くひ
slab with a haiku cut on it
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絶句

ぜっく、ぜく
being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)
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節句

節供
せっく
seasonal festival