| It was only in the 19th century that the hokku became haiku and was stripped of its connection to the renga. |
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| He took this opening verse, the hokku, and refined it to become what is now known as the haiku. |
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| Some of his hokku capture a moment of heightened awareness in which the boundary between subject and object seems to disappear. |
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| Haiku written before 1892 are more correctly known as hokku, the beginning verse of hakkai poetry. |
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| There are some thoughts and choices to be made before the hokku is written. |
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| The basic pattern of the hokku in three lines, followed by alternation of two and three, ending with two had to be maintained. |
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| The hokku became known as the haiku late in the 19th century, when it was entirely divested of its original function of opening a sequence of verse, but today even the 17th-century hokku are usually called haiku. |
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| The hokku, which set the tone of a renga, had to mention in its three lines such subjects as the season, time of day, and the dominant features of the landscape, making it almost an independent poem. |
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| The form gained distinction in the 17th century, during the Tokugawa period, when the great master BashÅ elevated the hokku, as it was then known, to a highly refined and conscious art. |
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| In the seventeenth century, Renga developed further with the emergence of a new middle class under the Tokugawa Shoguns, and the main emphasis was on the hokku, which took on a life of its own and eventually became the Haiku. |
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