| It was only in the 19th century that the hokku became haiku and was stripped of its connection to the renga. |
| This usage of capping verses known as renga came to be very popular, from the Court downward, as early as the thirteenth century. |
| At the age of thirteen, Zeami first met Nijo Yoshimoto, once regent of the Northern Court and leader of the Nijo school of court poetry as well as a practitioner of renga. |
| It is what might be called a collaborative poem, or renga, an identity well explained in the poem. |
