{{short description|Form of Japanese poetry rooted in haikai}} {{Italic title|reason=:Category:Japanese words and phrases}} {{Nihongo|'''''Zappai'''''|雑俳}} is a form of Japanese poetry rooted in ''haikai''. It is related to, but separate from, haiku and senryū. Lee Gurga defines zappai as a form of poetry that "includes all types of seventeen syllable poems that do not have the proper formal or technical characteristics of haiku."<ref>Gurga, Lee. “Toward an Aesthetic for English Language Haiku” in ''Modern Haiku'' Vol. XXXI, No. 3 (Fall, 2000)</ref> The Haiku Society of America mentioned zappai while defining similar forms<ref>[https://archive.today/20120802164243/http://www.hsa-haiku.org/archives/HSA_Definitions_2004.html HSA Definitions]</ref> though their comments were later rebutted by Richard Gilbert and Shinjuku Rollingstone.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090109144915/http://www.simplyhaiku.com/SHv3n1/features/Gilbert_Rollingstone.html Simply Haiku, vol. 3, iss. 1]</ref>
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