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Answer for the clue "Japanese verse form ", 5 letters:
hokku

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
is the opening stanza of a Japanese orthodox collaborative linked poem, renga , or of its later derivative, renku (haikai no renga). From the time of Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694), the hokku began to appear as an independent poem, and was also incorporated in ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context poetry English) A type of Japanese poem.