El haiku (俳句 haiku?) o haikú es un tipo de poesía japonesa. Consiste en un poema breve, de diecisiete «moras», formado generalmente por tres versos de cinco, siete y cinco moras respectivamente. Esta métrica no es fija. Comúnmente se sustituyen las moras por sílabas cuando se componen en otras lenguas. La esencia del haiku es «cortar» (切る [kiru]) mediante la yuxtaposición de dos ideas o imágenes separadas por un kireji (切れ字), que es el término «cortante» o separador. La poética del haiku generalmente se basa en el asombro y la emoción (哀れ [aware]) que produce en el poeta la contemplación de la naturaleza. Siguiendo el esquema tradicional japonés, un haiku debe contener también una referencia directa o indirecta a la estación del año, mediante el uso de un kigo (季語) o palabra que evoca las estaciones. Los saijiki (歳時記) son listas extensas de palabras kigo en japonés, que el poeta puede utilizar.

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Haiku (俳句) (plural haiku) is a very short form of Japanese poetry. It is typically characterised by three qualities: \n* The essence of haiku is "cutting" (kiru). This is often represented by the 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 colours the manner in which the juxtaposed elements are related. \n* Traditional haiku consist of 17 on (also known as morae though often loosely translated as "syllables"), in three phrases of 5, 7, and 5 on respectively. \n* A kigo (seasonal reference), usually drawn from a saijiki, an extensive but defined list of such words. Modern Japanese haiku (現代俳句 gendai-haiku) are increasingly unlikely to follow the tradition of 17 on or to take nature as their subject, but the use of juxtaposition 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. Previously called hokku, haiku was given its current name by the Japanese writer Masaoka Shiki at the end of the 19th century.

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