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hai⋅kai

  [hahy-kahy]
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–noun, plural -kai for 2. Prosody.
1. an informal type of linked verse originated by Bashō, a 17th-century Japanese poet.
2. a poem of this type.
Origin:
1880–85; < Japn haikai (no renga) jesting (linked verse); earlier faikai < MChin, equiv. to Chin páixié jest
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haikai

a comic renga, or Japanese linked-verse form. The haikai was developed as early as the 16th century as a diversion from the composition of the more serious renga form

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