This type of poetry originated from the Land of Sunrise(Japan).
Call it as Japanese poem with seventeen syllables written in three lines of five, seven, and five.
An English imitation of this gradually appeared and the same was called as 'Haiku" poem.Previously called hokku, haiku was given its current name by the Japanese writer Masaoka Shiki at the end of the 19th century.
Modern Japanese haiku are increasingly unlikely to follow the tradition of 17 on or to take nature as their subject, but the use of juxtaposition (of two images or ideas and a kireji ("cutting word") between them, a kind of verbal punctuation mark which signals the moment of separation and colors the manner in which the juxtaposed elements are related )continues to be honored in both traditional and modern haiku.There is a common, although relatively recent, perception that the images juxtaposed must be directly observed everyday objects or occurrences.
In Japanese, haiku are traditionally printed in a single vertical line while haiku in English often appear in three lines to parallel the three phrases of Japanese haiku.
The best-known Japanese haiku is Bashō's "old pond" .
old pond . . .
a frog leaps in
water’s sound.
The earliest westerner known to have written haiku was the Dutchman Hendrik Doeff (1764–1837), who was the Dutch commissioner in the Dejima trading post in Nagasaki, during the first years of the 19th century. One of his haiku:
lend me your arms,
fast as thunderbolts,
for a pillow on my journey.
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