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The first stanza (the first three lines), of renga is called hokku. Hokku of a renga later developed into haiku poetry. When the Japanese poets composed haiku and senryu, they used words in terms of sound effect. This was not possible when these Japanese poetry forms were adapted in other languages.
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The construction of the new capital of Nara began on 710
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But for her personal loss, that woman, known as Murasaki Shikibu, might never have written Genji monogatari (c. 1010; The Tale of Genji), which is considered the greatest work of Japanese literature and the world's first novel.
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