Gogyōshi

Gogyoshi (五行詩) is a style of Japanese poem that consists of a title and five lines.

Japanese poet Tekkan Yosano published the original form of gogyoshi with specific syllable counts for each line in 1910, but few poets wrote in the style.

Therefore, gogyoshi is considered the freest of Japanese poetic forms, as the poems do not have syllabic restrictions, specific line breaks, or a rhyme scheme.

However, the style differs from other five-line forms, such as tanka and gogyohka, by the titling of its poems.

[4] In 2018, Tarō Aizu proposed World Gogyoshi,[5][6] which is written in two languages, English and each mother tongue, and he has been publishing the anthology of World Gogyoshi every year.