Hokku is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 17 anagrams from letters in hokku (hkkou).
1895-1900; Japanese, equivalent to hok opening, first + ku stanza; earlier fot-ku Middle Chinese, equivalent to Chinese fá depart + jù phrase
That is not to say, that, by taking the letter for the spirit, we should in any way strive to imitate the hokku form.
He reformed the hokku, by introducing into everything he wrote a deep spiritual significance underlying the words.
It must always be understood that there is an implied continuation to every Japanese hokku.
The reader can now see for himself what the main object of the hokku poetry is, and what it achieved.
The concluding hemistich, whereby the hokku becomes the tanka, is existent in the writer's mind, but never uttered.
The most attenuated form of all is the hokku (or haikai) which consists of only three lines, namely, 17 syllables.