Koi Nagata is among this form's greatest modern practitioners, though its older writers, including Buson Yosa and Kyoski Takahama, are better known.
Reginald Blyth's History of this was published in two volumes starting in 1963, and "The Cuckoo" was a leading periodical for the publication of it. Shiki Masaoka wrote a famous zatsudan lampooning those that had come before him in writing in this style. Koi Nagata is among this form's greatest modern practitioners, though its older writers, including Buson Yosa and Kyoski Takahama, are better known. For 10 points, name the form of poem that evolved from the tonka during the Tokugawa period, defined as "A work in three lines/Of seventeen syllables/Common in Japan."
Reginald Blyth's History of this was published in two volumes starting in 1963, and "The Cuckoo" was a leading periodical for the publication of it.
{haiku} [or {hokku}]